Civil Rights
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Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War
$53.33 Add to cartHow American symbols inspired enslaved people and their allies to fight for true freedom
In the early United States, anthems, flags, holidays, monuments, and memorials were powerful symbols of an Amer- Author: Clavin, Matthew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1479823244
- Language: English
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Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
$29.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of the “stirring, definitive, and engrossing” (NPR) The Woman’s Hour returns with the story of four activists whose audacious plan to restore voting rights to Black Americans laid… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668002698
- Language: English
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
$32.00 Add to cartHow did America cease to be the land of opportunity?
We take it for granted that good neighborhoods–with good schools and good housing–are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn’t- Author: Appelbaum, Yoni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593449290
- 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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The White Peril: A Family Memoir
$27.95 Add to cartFrom the son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses: a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family
In The- Author: Moses, Omo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0807004820
- 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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White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition: The Politics of Morality in America
$16.00 Add to cartThe American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chroni… [more below]
- Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
- Author: Butler, Anthea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 146968151X
- Language: English
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Quotations of Malcolm X
$12.95 Add to cartNotable Quotations from Malcolm X
This pocketsized hardcover book contains nearly one hundred quotations from African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist, Malcolm X.
“It’s freedom for eve
- Series: Quotations of Great Americans
- Author: X, Malcolm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1429094400
- Language: English
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American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
$19.00 Add to cartAn enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” –NPR.org
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s- Author: Bauer, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0735223602
- 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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Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the author of How the World Moves–the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History
In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a h- Author: Nabokov, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140281592
- Language: English
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Tell Me Who You Are: A Road Map for Cultivating Racial Literacy
$20.00 Read moreAn eye-opening exploration of race in America
In this deeply inspiring book, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a- Author: Guo, Winona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 059333017X
- 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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Rehumanize: A Vision to Secure Human Rights for All
$24.95 Add to cartWho deserves human rights? The answer to this question is the crux of all moral and political action in society, and defines our character as individuals and as nations. Murphy and her co-authors seek
- Author: Murphy, Aimee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1565485416
- Language: English
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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
$19.95 Read moreA New York Times Bestseller
“I hope we wake up quickly because history shows it’s a small window in which people can fight back before it is too dangerous to fight back.”–Naomi Wolf on Fox News Chan
- Author: Wolf, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1933392797
- 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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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
$19.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undes- Author: Cohen, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109995
- Language: English
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You Don’t Have to Fuck People Over to Survive
$22.00 Read moreNew York, 1989: as a decade of activism around the urban housing crisis and beyond comes to a close, legendary graphic artist Seth Tobocman is there to document it all in his bold comic style.
You Don’
- Author: Tobocman, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1849350043
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Racial Inequality: With a New Preface
$21.00 Read more“Lifts and transforms the discourse on ‘race’ and racial justice to an entirely new level.”
“Intellectually rigorous and deeply thoughtful…An incisive, erudite book by a major thi
–Orlando Patterson- Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
- Author: Loury, Glenn C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260465
- Language: English
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Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
$28.00 Read more“Just as the Black Lives Matter movement and recent protests have shown the leadership of women of color in organizing against the prison state, this book will show the leadership of women, which is t… [more below]
- Author: Beety, Valena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0806541512
- Language: English
