Civil Rights
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Civil Disobedience
$12.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government, Thoreau’s classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentie… [more below]
- Series: Books of American Wisdom
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1557094179
- Language: English
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Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice
$18.99 Add to cartA riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont … [more below]
- Author: Hill, Marc Lamont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1982180404
- Language: English
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$15.99 Add to cartCreated as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader’s speeches, ser
- Series: Newmarket Words of
- Author: King, Martin Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 19 2001
- ISBN10: 155704483X
- Language: English
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To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care
$46.58 Add to cartAn incisive portrait of how the new Black politics can forge a future centered on collective action, community, and care
When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Blac- Author: Harris, Christopher Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0691219060
- Language: English
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Negroes with Guns
$9.99 Add to cartContains two essays by Martin Luther King Jr. concerning the role of violence in the civil rights movement. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Robert Williams organized armed self-defense
- Author: F. Williams, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: June 11 2020
- ISBN10: 9339046323
- Language: English
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Making the Case for Equality: 50 Years of Legal Milestones in LGBTQ History
$59.95 Read moreDozens of landmark legal cases, from 1973 to 2023, that drove transformative change from courtrooms to living rooms nationwide
Lambda Legal, the pioneering non-profit legal organization, opened its hal
- Author: Pizer, Jennifer C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936148
- Language: English
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When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia’s Capital City
$19.95 Add to cartOur nation’s first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide elect
- Author: Norman, Linwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1958754935
- Language: English
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Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries
$15.95 Add to cartAn essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI’S 1969 mandate to destroy the organization “by any means possib… [more below]
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Bin Wahad, Dhoruba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0936756748
- Language: English
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Julian Bond’s Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
$20.00 Read moreA masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it.
Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond’s Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a ne- Author: Bond, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0807014788
- Language: English
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Police: A Field Guide Revised Edition
$19.95 Read moreA radical guide to the language of policing
This field guide arms activists–and indeed anyone concerned about police abuse–with critical insights that ultimately redefine the very idea of policing.- Author: Correia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765879
- Language: English
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Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
$26.95 Add to cartIn Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women–northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina–share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonv… [more below]
- Author: Holsaert, Faith S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0252078888
- Language: English
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In Defense of My People
$28.95 Read moreOriginally published in Spanish in 1936 and 1937, In Defense of My People contains articles, letters and speeches written by one of the most influential civil rights activists of the early twentieth c… [more below]
- Author: Perales, Alonso S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1558859284
- Language: English
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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
$28.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment–and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its in
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1635574250
- Language: English
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There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
$16.95 Read moreThis kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today–Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314697
- Language: English
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A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
$19.95 Read more- Author: Maher, Geo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1839760060
- Language: English
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The Abuse of Property
$17.95 Read moreA fundamental critique of the current property regime, calling for radical social and political change.
In The Abuse of Property, Daniel Loick offers a multifaceted philosophical critique of the conce- Series: Untimely Meditations
- Author: Loick, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545500
- Language: English
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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
$24.95 Read moreNational Book Critics Circle 2021 Biography Finalist
53rd NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography “[A] riveting and timely exploration of Hamer’s life. . . . Bri- Author: Blain, Keisha N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0807061506
- Language: English
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Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment
$16.95 Read moreA groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment
As the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration har- Author: Norris, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0807003026
- Language: English
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Pow
$20.00 Add to cartHere is the courageous, groundbreaking story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor–a story that reinterprets the history of America’s civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against B… [more below]
- Author: McGuire, Danielle L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0307389243
- Language: English
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Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement
$25.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize
The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Pa- Series: Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
- Author: Smith, Ethel Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1496846419
- Language: English
