Tag Archives | Bayard Rustin

Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington

By Gail Whiffen on December 1, 2019

By Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long. City Lights Publishers, 2019. 172 pages. $13.95/paperback or eBook. Recommended for […]

Gail Whiffen is associate editor of Friends Journal.

Posted in: December 2019 Books: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Quaker Book Reviews, Quaker Kids

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

We Face the Dawn: Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and the Legal Team That Dismantled Jim Crow

By Books In Brief: Review by Karie Firoozmand on February 1, 2019

By Margaret Edds. University of Virginia Press, 2018. 424 pages. $29.95/hardcover or eBook; $24.95/paperback. Friend Margaret Edds, a journalist by […]

Posted in: February 2019, February 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

By Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May on January 1, 2019

By Sarah Azaransky. Oxford University Press, 2017. 296 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The story of the Civil Rights Movement is almost […]

Isaac Barnes May is a member of Charlottesville (Va.) Meeting. He is a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the University of Virginia.

Posted in: January 2019 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Racially Diverse Society of Friends (January 2019)

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }

The Power of Goodness: Art and Stories for a Culture of Peace

By Reviewed by Dave Austin on December 1, 2016

Edited by Nadine Hoover, forewords by Pete Seeger and Musa Akhmadov. Conscience Studio, 2016. 120 pages, $20/paperback. Recommended for all […]

Dave Austin is a member of Haddonfield (N.J.) Meeting. He teaches middle school world history and Holocaust studies. He is currently at work on a book about the Holocaust.

Posted in: December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf, Giving and Philanthropy, Quaker Book Reviews

Continue Reading · Comments { 0 }