Social reformers -- United States
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- Abolitionists -- United States
- Civil rights workers -- United States
- Feminists -- United States
- Labor leaders -- United States
- Prison reformers -- United States
- Prohibitionists -- United States
- Women social reformers -- United States
- Social reformers -- Illinois
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Allen, Richard, 1760-1831
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
- Bailey, Bill
- Banks, J. H., 1833-
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
- Brown, John, 1800-1859
- Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877
- Coffin, Rhoda M. (Rhoda Moorman), 1826-1909
- Comstock, Elizabeth L.
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Fee, John Gregg, 1816-1901
- Foster, William Z., 1881-1961
- Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
- Green, J. D. (Jacob D.), 1813-
- Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928
- Henson, Josiah, 1789-1883
- Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880
- Jones, Mother, 1837-1930
- Lane, Lunsford, 1803-approximately 1863
- Loguen, Jermain Wesley
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
- Nation, Carry Amelia, 1846-1911
- Ntantala, Phyllis
- Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
- Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
- Springer, Maida
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
- Swisshelm, Jane Grey, 1815-1884
- Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883
- Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The author, 1850; main text as reprinted by Oxford University Press in 1991), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)- Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman (Toronto: Woman's Temperance Pub. Association; Rose, 1889), by Frances E. Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation (1905 edition), by Carry Amelia Nation
- Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Journal Office, 1871), ed. by Unitarian Congregational Society (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Boston: For the Author, 1875), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Battle Creek, MI: For the author, 1878), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Memorial Chapter, Giving the Particulars of Her Last Sickness and Death (Battle Creek, MI: Review and Herald Office, 1884), by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, and Frances W. Titus
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The Author, 1850), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld
- An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, With Reference to the Duty of American Females (second edition, 1837), by Catharine Esther Beecher (HTML at Virginia)
- Exposition of the Object and Plans of the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (ca. 1835), by American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race
- On a Labor Faker's Trail: The Shady Record of Frank Farrington (Chicago: Workers Party of America, ca. 1924), by T. J. O'Flaherty (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Rhoda M. Coffin: Her Reminiscences, Addresses, Papers and Ancestry (New York: Grafton Press, 1910), by Rhoda M. Coffin, ed. by Mary Coffin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Women of Influence (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), ed. by George Clack and Mildred Sola Neely (PDF at usembassy.gov)
- Beloved Lady: A History of Jane Addams' Ideas on Reform and Peace (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by John C. Farrell, contrib. by Charles A. Barker (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes (copyright 1910; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912), by Jane Addams (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Martin and Boden, 1833), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Life Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (with a new introduction by Singleton; New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1960), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones and George A. Singleton (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: F. Ford and M. A. Riply, 1880), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
- The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen; To Which is Annexed, The Rise and Progresss of the American Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America (Philadelphia: Lee and Yeocum, c1887), by Richard Allen, contrib. by Absalom Jones
- Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (3 volumes published in Indianapolis, 1898-1908), by Ida Husted Harper, contrib. by Susan B. Anthony
- Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian (Washington: Zenger Pub. Co., c1959), by Alma Lutz (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Susan B. Anthony: The Woman Who Changed the Mind of a Nation (New York: F. A. Stokes company, 1928), by Rheta Childe Dorr (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Speech of Sara Bard Field: Presenting to Congress on Behalf of the Women of the Nation, the Marble Busts of Three Suffrage Pioneers, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton Cady, Susan Brownell Anthony (1921), by Sara Bard Field (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)
- A Narrative of Events of the Life of J. H. Banks, an Escaped Slave, from the Cotton State, Alabama, in America (Liverpool: M. Rourke, Printer, 1861), by J. H. Banks and James W. C. Pennington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Wall Between (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958), by Anne Braden (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Anti-Slavery History of the John-Brown Year: Being the Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society (with two distinct title pages; New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861), by American Anti-Slavery Society (multiple formats at Google)
- The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Young Howells and John Brown: Episodes in a Radical Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Edwin Harrison Cady (PDF at Ohio State)
- John Brown (Philadelphia: G. W. Jacobs and Co., c1909), by W. E. B. Du Bois (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Old John Brown: The Man Whose Soul is Marching On, by Walter Hawkins (Gutenberg text)
- Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad, by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)
- Rhoda M. Coffin: Her Reminiscences, Addresses, Papers and Ancestry (New York: Grafton Press, 1910), by Rhoda M. Coffin, ed. by Mary Coffin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (second thousand; London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Frederick Douglass, the Orator: Containing an Account of His Life, His Eminent Public Services, His Brilliant Career as Orator, Selections from His Speeches and Writings (Springfield, MA: Willey and Co., 1893), by James M. Gregory, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Hartford: Park Pub. Co., 1881), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Boston: De Wolfe and Fiske Co., c1892), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by George L. Ruffin (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Bondage and My Freedom (New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Bondage and My Freedom (c1855), by Frederick Douglass, contrib. by James McCune Smith
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
- Frederick Douglass (London: Hodder and Stoughton, c1906), by Booker T. Washington (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Frederick Douglass: A Narrative (Washington: The author, 1921), by Leila Amos Pendleton
- Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator (revised edition; New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1895), by Frederic May Holland (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Frederick Douglass (based on an 1899 edition, with some 21st-century annotations), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
- My Mother As I Recall Her (address delivered 1900, reprinted 1923), by Rosetta Douglass Sprague (page images at loc.gov)
- Autobiography of John G. Fee, Berea, Kentucky, by John Gregg Fee (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- More Pages From a Worker's Life (Occasional paper - American Institute for Marxist Studies #32; 1979), by William Z. Foster, ed. by Arthur Zipser (multiple formats at archive.org)
- W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Foster-Ford: The Candidates of the Working Youth (New York: Youth Publishers, 1932) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)
- Futility of Fosterism (Winnipeg: One Big Union Bulletin, ca. 1923), by Ben Legere (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Rebels and Renegades (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Max Nomad (page images at HathiTrust)
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