BOOKS ACTIVISM

 

Addison, Steve, David Garrison, The Rise and Fall of Movements: A Roadmap for Leaders, 100Movement Publishing, 2019

 

Allen, Jennie, Find Your People: Building Deep Community in a Lonely World, WaterBrook, 2023

 

Almeida, Paul, Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Mobilization, University of California Press, 2019

 

Anderson, Carol, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960, Cambridge University Press, 2014

 

Andrés, José, Richard Wolffe, Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs, Ecco, 2025

 

Andrés, José, World Central Kitchen, The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope, Clarkson Potter, 2023

 

Arsenault, Raymond, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Pivotal Moments in American History), Oxford University Press; Abridged edition, 2011

 

Bell, Janet Dewart, Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, The New Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Benedict, Jeff, Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage, Grand Central Publishing, 2009

 

Berry, Mary Frances, Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America, Penguin Books; Revised edition, 1995

 

Biggers, Jeff, Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition, Catapult; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Blow, Charles M., The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto,  Harper Perennial, 2021

 

brown, adrienne maree, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, 0), AK Press, 2017 

 

Brown, Michael Jacoby, Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World, Long Haul Press; 23921st edition, 2007

 

Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality, Vintage, 2023

 

Burden-Stelly, Charisse, Jodi Dean, Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing, Verso, 2022

 

Cahan, Richard, Michael Williams , Ernest C. Withers (Photographer), Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era, CityFiles Press, 2019

 

Carmichael, Stokely, John Edgar Wideman, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Scribner; Illustrated edition, 2005

 

Carson, Clayborne, David J. Garrow, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, Penguin Books; 4th edition, 1991

 

Carson, Clayborne, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, Harvard University Press; Second Printing edition, 1995

 

Chambers, Edward T, Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice (Bloomsbury Revelations), Bloomsbury Academic; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Chenoweth, Erica, Maria Stephan, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare), Columbia University Press; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Chugh, Dolly, A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change, Atria Books, 20224

 

Cole, David, Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed, Basic Books; Revised edition, 2017

 

Collier-Thomas, Bettye, V.P. Franklin, Sisters in the Struggle : African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement, NYU Press, 2001

 

Cosby, Kevin W., Getting to the Promised Land: Black America and the Unfinished Work of the Civil Rights Movement, Westminster John Knox Press, 2021

 

Costanza-Chock, Sasha, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy), The MIT Press, 2020

 

Crawford, Vicki L, Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 19411965 (Blacks in the Diaspora), Indiana University Press; Reprint edition, 1993

 

Cullors, Patrisse, An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World, St. Martin's Griffin, 2024

 

Daniel, Vanessa Priya, Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning, Random House, 2025

 

DeBoer, Fredrik, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement, Simon & Schuster, 2024

 

Dionne, E.J. Jr., Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country, St. Martin's Press, 2020

 

Eberstadt, Mary, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, Templeton Press, 2021

 

Ellis, Eddie, Change is Possible: I Never Gave Up, Atmosphere Press, 2023

 

El-Sayed, Abdul, Ady Barkan, Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic, Harry N. Abrams; Reissue, Paperback edition, 2021

 

Faust, Drew Gilpin, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023  

 

Fenton, David, The Activist's Media Handbook: Lessons from Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator, Earth Aware Editions, 2022


Foer, Franklin, Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America – Essays on Civil Rights, Communism, War, and the Women's Movement (New Republic), Harper, 2014

 

Fonda, Jane, What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action, Penguin Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Fujino, Diane C., Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama (Critical American Studies), Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2005

 

Gandhi, M. K., Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha), Dover Publications; Reprint edition, 2001

 

Ganz, Marshall, People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal, Oxford University Press, 2024

 

Goodwin, Jeff, James M. Jasper, The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts (Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology), Wiley-Blackwell; 3rd edition, 2014

 

Graeber, David, Direct Action: An Ethnography, AK Press, 2009

 

Graf, Arnie, Lessons Learned: Stories from a Lifetime of Organizing, ACTA Publications, 2020

 

Greenberg, Leah, Ezra Levin, We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump, Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2019

 

Haga, Kazu, Bernard LaFayette Jr., Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm, Parallax Press, 2020

 

Halberstam, David, The Children, Fawcett Books, 1999

 

Han, Hahrie, Elizabeth McKenna, Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America (Chicago Studies in American Politics), University of Chicago Press, 2021

 

Han, Hahrie, How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, 2014

 

Hayes, Kelly, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, AK Press, 2025

 

Hersh, Eitan, Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change, Scribner, 2020

 

Hunter, Daniel, Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide, Hyrax Publishing, 2015

 

Hunt-Hendrix, Leah, Astra Taylor, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, Vintage, 2025

 

Hutchinson, Sikivu, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars, Infidel Books, 2011

 

Jackson, Sarah J., Moya Bailey, #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (Mit Press), The MIT Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Jackson, Thomas F., From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice (Politics and Culture in Modern America), University of Pennsylvania Press; Illustrated edition, 2009

 

Jiménez, Cristina, Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change, St. Martin's Press, 2025

 

Johnson, Maureen, How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation, Wednesday Books, 2018

 

Jones, Judge Nathaniel R., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Answering the Call: An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America, The New Press, 2016

 

Jones, Kimberly, How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged, Henry Holt and Co., 2022

 

Joseph, Peniel E., Stokely: A Life, Civitas Books; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Kaba, Mariame, Kelly Hayes, Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Abolitionist Papers), Haymarket Books, 2023

 

Kaba, Mariame, Shira Hassan, Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators, Project NIA; Workbook edition, 2019

 

Kaba, Mariame, Tamara K. Nopper, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Abolitionist Papers), Haymarket Books, 2021

 

Kahn, Si, Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010

 

King, Robert Hillary, Dr. Terry Kupers MD MSP, From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King, PM Press; Expanded and Updated edition, 2012

 

Lakey, George, How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning (Activist Citizens' Library), Melville House, 2018

 

Landemore, Hélène, Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule  Thesis, 2026

 

Lawson, James M. Jr. Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom, University of California Press, 2024

 

Long, Michael G., Clayborne Carson, Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics, NYU Press, 2025

 

Malhotra, Neil, Frontiers in Social Innovation: The Essential Handbook for Creating, Deploying, and Sustaining Creative Solutions to Systemic Problems, Harvard Business Review Press, 2022

 

McAlevey, Jane F., No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, Oxford University Press, 2016

 

McMahon, Sharon, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement, Thesis, 2024

 

Moore, Leonard N., The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972, LSU Press, 2018

 

Morris, Aldon D., The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change, Free Press; Edition Unstated, 1986

 

Nader, Ralph, Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think (City Lights Open Media), City Lights Publishers, 2016

 

Nalamalapu, Denali Sai, Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance, Timber Press, 2025

 

Newton, Huey P., Ho Che Anderson, Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Penguin Classics, 2009

 

Nyamayaro, Elizabeth, I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment, Community, and Hope, Scribner, 2022

 

Patton, Gwendolyn, Bob Moses (Foreword), My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil Rights Movement, NewSouth Books, 2020

 

Penningroth, Dylan C., Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, Liveright, 2024

 

Perry, Imani, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Beacon Press, 2019

 

Ransby, Barbara, Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender & American Culture), Univ of North Carolina Pr; New edition, 2005

 

Ross, Loretta J., Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel, Simon & Schuster, 2025

 

Ross, Rosetta E., Witnessing and Testifying: Black Women, Religion, and Civil Rights, Fortress Press, 2003

 

Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, Katie McCabe, Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights, Algonquin Books, 2019

 

Ruiz, Vicki L., From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America, Oxford University Press; 10th edition, 2008

 

Scott, James C., Alex Boyles, Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts ,Yale University Press; Revised ed. Edition, 1992

 

Shakur, Assata, Angela Davis (Contributor), Assata: An Autobiography, Lawrence Hill Books, 2001

 

Sharp, Gene, From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, The New Press, 2012

 

Solomon, Akiba, Kenrya Rankin, How we fight white supremacy: a field guide to Black resistance, Bold Type Books, 2019

 

Spivack, Miranda S., Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back, The New Press, 2025

 

Staniland, Paul, Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs), Cornell University Press; Illustrated edition, 2014

 

Staples, Lee, Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing, Praeger; 3rd edition, 2016

 

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Haymarket Books, 2017

 

Terry, Brandon M., Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2025

 

Ture, Kwame, Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power : The Politics of Liberation, Vintage, 1992

 

Umoja, Akinyele Omowale, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, NYU Press; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Vigil, Ernesto B., The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, University of Wisconsin Press, 1999

 

Weiss, Elaine, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement, Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2025

 

White, Monica M., Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (Justice, Power, and Politics), The University of North Carolina Press; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Williams, Omkari L., Layla F. Saad, Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn, Storey Publishing, LLC, 2023

 

Williams, Sophie, Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Activism and Action, Amistad, 2021

 

Zepeda-Millán, Chris, Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism, Cambridge University Press, 2017 

 



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