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Looking for read-alikes for Weak Start Unapologetic Present by Lester Patrick? These 24 titles overlap in Social Activists, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, African American & Black, and Personal Memoirs and overall literary texture.

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Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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The Color of Abolition How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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The Education of Kevin Powell A Boy’s Journey Into Manhood

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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The Movement Made Us A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride

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Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

And Then Life Happens A Memoir — Auma Obama

And Then Life Happens A Memoir

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

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Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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Unbound My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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You Got Anything Stronger? Stories

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Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

Just Mercy A Story of Justice and Redemption — Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave — Frederick Douglass

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

Unprotected A Memoir — Billy Porter

Unprotected A Memoir

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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Bad The Autobiography of James Carr

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth — Sojourner Truth

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

The Love Prison Made and Unmade My Story — Ebony Roberts

The Love Prison Made and Unmade My Story

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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Howard Thurman’s Great Hope

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Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

As Good as Anybody Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom — Richard Michelson

As Good as Anybody Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Amazing March Toward Freedom

Richard Michelson

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

March Forward, Girl — Melba Pattillo Beals

March Forward, Girl

Melba Pattillo Beals

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

Malcolm X From Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary — Dustin J. Byrd

Malcolm X From Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

Martin Luther King, Jr — Rob Lloyd Jones

Martin Luther King, Jr

Rob Lloyd Jones

Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

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Themes: Social Activists • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • African American & Black

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Social Activists, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, African American & Black — the same threads that run through Weak Start Unapologetic Present by Lester Patrick. Among the authors featured: Joy-Ann Reid, Linda Hirshman, Kevin Powell, David J. Dennis Jr., and others.

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