Books to Read
MLK and Civil Rights-elated Works
Letter from Birmingham Jail – written on April 16, 1963
Measure of a Man, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1959)
Strength to Love, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1958)
The Trumpet of Conscience, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967)
Why We Can’t Wait, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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Against us, But for Us: Martin Luther King Jr., and the State, Michael G Long (2002)
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson (1998)
Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist, Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long (2014)
A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson and Chris Shepard (2001)
I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters, Bayard Rustin, edited by Michael G Long (2012)
The Reminiscences of Bayard Rustin (oral history memoir), Bayard Rustin (1988)
War Without Violence: A Study of Gandhi’s Method and Its Accomplishments, Krishnalal Shridharani (1939)
Books on Diversity, Humanity and Society
A Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community, John Pavlovitz (2017)
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, Allyson Hobbs (2014)
A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee (1961)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
Diversity in America, Vincent Parrillo (2012)
The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy, Martin Gilbert (1987)
How the Irish Became White, Noel Ignatiev (1996)
Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century, Sir Alistair Horne (2016)
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, Max Boot (2013)
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, Sarah Grimke (1837)
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass (1882)
LOVING: A Photographic History of Men in Love, Nini and Treadwell (2020)
Mississippi Eyes: The Story and Photography of the Southern Documentary Project, Herron, Matt (2014)
No Name in the Street, James Baldwin (1972)
One Nation Under Gods: A New American History, Peter Manseau (2016)
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell (2008)
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948 - 1985, James Baldwin (1985)
The Reason Why: The Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition, Ida B Wells, Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn and Ferdinand L. Barnett (1893)
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States, Ida B Wells-Barnett (1895)
Reminiscence of Levi Coffin: The Reputed President of the Under Ground Railroad, Coffin, Levi (1880)
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman (2017)
Sulwe, Lupita Nyong'o (2019)
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward Baptist (2014)
The Story of American Freedom, Eric Foner (1998)
Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969 – 1976, Iris Morales (2016)
The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author, William Still (1902)
The Voyage of the Golden Rule: An Experiment With Truth, Albert Bigelow (1959)
What is the Bible? How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything, Rob Bell (2017)
Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White – The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs, David Roediger (2018)
Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty, Simon Baron-Cohen (2011)
Articles and Journals
Auguste, Byron, et al: The economic cost of the US education gap, The McKinsey Quarterly, 2009
Badger, Emily: The Dramatic Racial Bias of Subprime Lending During the Housing Boom, Bloomberg, 2013
Banaji, M. & Phelps, E.: The Neuroscience of Race, Nature Neuroscience, 2012
Beekman, Daniel: Discrimination alleged at 13 Seattle rental properties, Seattle Times, 2015
Rep. Blumenauer, Earl: The Hidden Cost of Living Below the Poverty Line, AP Press Release, 2009
Carr, Dennis: The Overlooked Asian Influence on Art of the Colonial Americas, Hyperallergic, 2015
Chen, Victor Tan: All Hollowed Out - The lonely poverty of America’s white working class, Atlantic, 2016
CNN/Spencer, Margaret: Study: White and Black Children Biased toward Lighter Skin, 2010
Franklin, Karen: Psychosocial Motivations of Hate Crimes Perpetrators - Presented at a congressional briefing co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Washington, D.C., 1998
Gardiner, Bryan: Big Question: Why Am I a Horrible Person When I Drive? Wired, 2015
Gerson, Michael: Trump should fill Christians with rage. How come he doesn’t? Washington Post, 2022
Phelps, Elizabeth: Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events, Nature, 2001
Rehavi and Starr: Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences, Journal of Political Economy, 2014
Rustin, Bayard: From Protest to Politics – The Future of the Civil Rights Movement, Harpers, 1965
Staples, Brent: The Racist Origins of Felony Disenfranchisement, The New York Times, 2014
Tehranian, John: Performing Whiteness: Naturalization Litigation and the Construction of Racial Identity in America, Yale Law Journal, 2000
Traub, Amy et al.: The Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap, Demos, 2017
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