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 ManifestoHarper 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

 

Frank, Thomas, The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism, Metropolitan Books, 2020

 

Garza, Alicia, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, One World, 2021

 

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

 

Hartmann, Thom, Gene Latimer, We the People: A Call to Take Back America, Coreway Media Inc; Illustrated edition, 2004

 

Hartmann, Thom, Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country, Berrett-Koehler Publishers; PB reissue edition, 2011

 

Hilburn, Robert, A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman, Da Capo, 2024

 

Hill, Steven, Europe's Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age, University of California Press, 2010

 

Honey, Michael K., To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Hopkins, Rob, From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want, Chelsea Green Publishing UK, 2020

 

Huff, Mickey, Shealeigh Voitl, Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2025, Seven Stories Press, 2024

 

Hutchins, Giles, Laura Storm, Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organizations, Wordzworth Publishing, 2019

 

Ireland, Mark Richard, Wellstone, Conscience of the Senate: the Collected Floor Speeches of Senator Paul Wellstone, North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2008

 

Jager, Anton, Arthur Borriello, The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession (Jacobin), Verso, 2023

 

Jenkins, Jack, American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country, HarperOne, 2020

 

Kaltwasser, Rovira Cristobal, Paul A. Taggart, The Oxford Handbook of Populism (Oxford Handbooks), Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Kaufmann, Eric, The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism, Bombardier Books, 2024

 

Kelley, Robin D.G., Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Beacon Press; New Ed edition, 2003

 

Kendzior, Sarah, They Knew, Flatiron Books, 2024

 

Kenworthy, Lane, Social Democratic America, Oxford University Press, USA, 2014 

 

Klein, Naomi, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023

 

Krugman, Paul, The Conscience of a Liberal, Norton, 2007 

 

Lofy, Bill, Paul Wellstone: The Life of a Passionate Progressive, University of Michigan Press, 2005

 

Malik, Nesrine, We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent, W&N, 2020

 

Margolin, Jamie, Greta Thunberg, Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It, Balance, 2020

 

Maxwell, Zerlina, The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide, Hachette Books, 2020

 

Mcgrath, Dennis J., Dane Smith, Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington: The Inside Story of a Grassroots U.S. Senate Campaign, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1995

 

McMorrow, Mallory, Hate Won't Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, Grand Central Publishing, 2025

 

McQueen, Cyrus, TWEETING TRUTH TO POWER: CHRONICLING OUR CAUSTIC POLITICS, CRAZED TIMES, & THE GREAT BLACK & WHITE DIVIDE, Cyrus McQueen LLC, 2020

 

Met, Adam PhD, Heather Landy, Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World, Harmony, 2025

 

Nace, Ted, Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, Berrett Koehler, 2005

 

Nader, Ralph, Civic Self-respect, Seven Stories Press, 2025

 

Nguyen, Viet Thanh, Jacqueline Woodson, Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases, Press / Simon & Schuster, 2020

 

Nwanevu, Osita, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, Random House, 2025

 

Oluo, Ijeoma, Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World―and How You Can, Too, HarperOne, 2024

 

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

 

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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