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"Harvey Milk--eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck--was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the age of forty-eight made him the most famous gay man in modern history; twenty years later Time magazine included him on its list of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century. Before...
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Viking
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[2020]
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English
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"In this memoir, celebrated author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher; of the small apartment she found, which became a home in which...
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Pantheon Books
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[2017]
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English
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1. Which journalist was among the first to bring black history facts to the masses? -- 2. How many Africans were taken to the United States during the entire history of the slave trade? -- 3. Who was the first African to arrive in America -- 4. Who was the first black saint? -- 5. Who was the first black president in North America? -- 6. Who were Africa's first ambassadors to Europe? -- 7. Who was the first black explorer of the North...
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