These American heroes hail from Canada to Chile and everywhere in between, from the 1500s to today.
Du Bois, Sojourner Truth, Chico Mendes, Tupac Shakur, Grace Lee Boggs, Muhammad Ali, Yuri Kochiyama, and many more..
Each story is vividly illustrated, offering a radical glimpse of how individuals can work to change the world.
Firebrands include: Frida Kahlo, Audre Lorde, Sitting Bull, Gloria Anzald a, Pablo Neruda, Nina Simone, Emma Goldman, Fred Hampton, Buckminster Fuller, Paolo Freire, W.
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These heroes put their bodies and souls into fighting injustice and making their communities better and often gave their lives for the causes they believed in.
Instead of the powerful, rich, white folks focused on in School textbooks, these gorgeous portraits with accompanying biographies recognize the work of grassroots organizers, revolutionaries, visionaries, anarchists, workers, and artists.
These American heroes hail from Canada to Chile and everywhere in between, from the 1500s to today
