Suggested Readings

The New Jim Crow

Freedom is an Endless Meeting

A guide to effective nonviolent struggle View

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63

Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65

At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68

Walking to Greenham: How the Peace Camp Began and the Cold War Ended

Slavery by Another Name

Autobiography of Malcom X

Malcolm X

CANVAS: A guide to effective nonviolent struggle

A Long Haul

Why David sometimes wins

Rules for Radicals

Roots for Radicals

Reveille for Radicals

Poor People’s Movements: Why they succeed, how they fail

Assata

A taste of Power a Black Woman’s Story

Race Matters

Seize the time: The story of the Black Panther Party

A People’s History of the United States View

Are Prison’s Obsolete?

Michelle Alexander

Francesca Polletta

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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch

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Douglass Blackman

Malcolm X

Manning Marable

Otpur

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Marshall Ganz

Saul Alinsky

Edward Chambers

Saul Alinsky

Frances Fox Piven

Assata Shakur

Elaine Brown

Cornel West

Bobby Seale

Howard Zinn

Angela Y. Davis

Amandla!: A revolution in four part harmony (2002)

Songs for a Revolution (2010)

Sing Your Song (2011)

Milk (2006)

Freedom Riders

Che 2 part series (2010)

Music from the big house (2012)

Bread and Roses (2010)

Matewan (1987)

Blue Collar (1978)

Norma Rae (1979)

The motorcycle diaries (2004)

Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Cry Freedom (1987)

The Long Walk Home (1990)

Wattstax (1973)

Standing on my sisters shoulders