By Gary Dorrien. Yale University Press, 2018. 632 pages. $45/hardcover or eBook; $30/paperback. In Breaking White Supremacy, Gary Dorrien, professor [鈥
Tag Archives | Civil Rights Movement
Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
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: March 2019 Books, Outside the Meetinghouse, Quaker Book Reviews
This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
By Sarah Azaransky. Oxford University Press, 2017. 296 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The story of the Civil Rights Movement is almost [鈥
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)
Provide Sanctuary
It is time for people of conscience to embrace the brothers and sisters among us.
Michael Resman lives in聽Rochester, Minn.
Posted in: Quakers and Christianity, Viewpoint
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
By Jeanne Theoharis. Beacon Press, 2018. 288 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $18/paperback (available in Jan. 2019); $24.99/eBook. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [鈥
Lauren Brownlee is a member of Bethesda (Md.) Meeting and serves on the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Growing Diverse Leadership and Peace and Social Concerns Committees.
Posted in: Quaker Book Reviews, September 2018, September 2018 Books
Racial Purity and Dangerous Bodies: Moral Pollution, Black Lives, and the Struggle for Justice
By Rima Vesely鈥怓lad. Fortress Press, 2017. 226 pages. $34/paperback; $4.99/eBook. A couple of years ago, I visited a man I [鈥
Patience A. Schenck is a member of Annapolis (Md.) Meeting, now living happily at Friends House in Sandy Spring, Md. She volunteers with Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, June/July 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Co鈥恈urricular Learning in the Quaker and Special Collections
A look behind the scenes at Haverford Library Quaker and Special Collections.
Mary Crauderueff is the curator of the Quaker Collections at Haverford College. She grew up as a member at Radnor (Pa.) Meeting, and currently attends Germantown Mennonite Church in Philadelphia. She loves hiking in the Wissahickon, drinking espresso, and working toward decolonizing the archives field in theory and practice.
Posted in: Online Features, Quaker Libraries
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing
Edited by Lawrence Rosenwald. The Library of America, 2016. 850 pages. $40/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. This is an ambitious book, and it [鈥
J.E. McNeil is a member of Friends Meeting of Washington (D.C.) and as an attorney a longtime supporter of those who say no to war. She spent 11 years as the executive director of the Center on Conscience & War and continues to work with members in the military who seek CO discharge.
Posted in: June/July 2017 Books, June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement
By William J. Barber II, with Jonathan Wilson鈥怘artgrove. Beacon Press, 2016. 138 pages. $24.95/hardcover; $16/paperback; $23.99/eBook. Many of us still [鈥
Pamela Haines is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting.
Posted in: Crossing Cultures, October 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Pursuing Justice Requires Boldness
What do you really want when you invite a person of color to the table?
Dr. Nekima Levy-Pounds is a professor of law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, the founding director of the Community Justice Project, and the president of the Minneapolis chapter of the NAACP. She is a nationally recognized expert on issues of race, public policy, economic justice, and the criminal justice system.
Posted in: September 2016
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