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Focusing on the life and legacy of Paul Robeson, this adaptation for young adults highlights his significance as a vocal artist and civil rights leader in the twentieth century. The biography, crafted by an acclaimed author, explores Robeson's contributions to music and social justice, showcasing his impact on both the arts and civil rights movements. Through engaging narratives, young readers will discover the challenges he faced and the enduring influence of his work.

"Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and challenging figures in second-wave feminism. Although frequently relegated to its more radical fringes, Dworkin was without doubt a formidable and influential writer, a philosopher, and an activist-a brilliant figure who inspired and infuriated in equal measure. Her many detractors were eager to reduce her to the caricature of the angry, man-hating feminist who believed that all sex was rape, and as a result, her work has long been misunderstood. It is in recent years, especially with the rise of the #MeToo movement, that there has been a resurgence of interest in her ideas. This biography is the perfect complement to the widely reviewed anthology of her writing, Last Days at Hot Slit, published in 2019, providing much-needed context to her work. Given exclusive access to never-before-published photographs and archives, including her letters to many of the major figures of second-wave feminism, award-winning biographer Martin Duberman traces Dworkin's life, from her abusive first marriage through her central role in the sex and pornography wars of the following decades. This is a vital, complex, and long overdue reassessment of the life and work of one of the towering figures of second-wave feminism"-- Provided by publisher

"Martin Duberman is a national treasure." --Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been more broad and conservative than deep and transformative. One of the most renowned historians of the American left and the LGBTQ movement, as well as a pioneering social-justice activist, Duberman reviews the half century since Stonewall with an immediacy and rigor that informs and energizes. He revisits the early gay movement and its progressive vision for society and puts the left on notice as failing time and again to embrace the queer potential for social transformation. Acknowledging the elimination of some of the most discriminatory policies that plagued earlier generations, he takes note of the cost--the sidelining of radical goals on the way to achieving more normative inclusion. Illuminating the fault lines both within and beyond the movements of the past and today, this critical book is also hopeful: Duberman urges us to learn from this history to fight for a truly inclusive and expansive society.

The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. “Martin Duberman is a national treasure.”—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the typical compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he re-creates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Their stories combine to form an unforgettable portrait of the repression that led up to the riots, which culminates when they triumphantly participate in the first gay rights march of 1970, the roots of today's pride marches. Fifty years after the riots, Stonewall remains a rare work that evokes with a human touch an event in history that still profoundly affects life today.

Martin Duberman, a Distinguished Professor of History at CUNY, is a prolific author of histories, biographies, and plays. His notable works include "Cures," "Stonewall," and "Hold Tight Gently." He has received multiple awards, including the Bancroft Prize and Lambda Literary Awards, and lives in New York City.

A breathtaking historical novel that recreates the intimate milieu around Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm from 1907 through the 1930s, a period of great human suffering and destruction and also of enormous freedom and creativity, a time when the remnants and artifices of the old word still mattered, and yet when art and the social sciences were pirouetting with successive revolutions in thought and style. Set in a time when many men in the upper classes in Europe were gay, but could not be so publicly, Jews Queers Germans revolves around three men: Prince Philipp von Eulenburg, Kaiser Wilhelm II's closest friend, who becomes the subject of a notorious 1907 trial for homosexuality; Magnus Hirschfeld, a famed, Jewish sexologist who gives testimony at the trial; and Count Harry Kessler, a leading proponent of modernism, and the keeper of a famous set of diaries which lay out in intimate detail the major social, artistic and political events of the day and allude as well to his own homosexuality. The central theme here is the gay life of a very upper crust intellectual milieu that had a real impact on the major political upheavals that would shape the modern world forever after.

Challenging the traditional view of abolitionists as "meddlesome fanatics," this book presents a more nuanced perspective from contemporary historians. It critically reassesses the motivations, tactics, and impacts of the abolitionist movement, offering a sympathetic evaluation of their contributions. The text explores their role within the larger antislavery movement and addresses the complexities of their influence on societal change and the Civil War, moving beyond the simplistic narrative of self-righteousness and blind zeal.

The book serves as a poignant tribute to individuals lost to AIDS, highlighting the contributions of two pivotal figures in the early years of the epidemic. Callen, a white gay man from the Midwest, emerged as a key advocate for AIDS awareness amidst societal neglect. In contrast, Hemphill, an African American gay poet, enriched the black gay and lesbian community in Washington, D.C. through his powerful and introspective poetry, capturing the emotional depth of the struggle during this critical time.

Focusing on the lives of two pivotal figures of the twentieth-century American left, this dual portrait delves into the political and social activism of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds. Deming, a feminist and nonviolent activist, openly embraced her identity as a lesbian from a young age. McReynolds, notable for being the first openly gay presidential candidate for the Socialist Party, fiercely opposed the Vietnam War and was a pioneer in draft card protests. Their stories illuminate the intersection of personal identity and political activism.