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education: reading list

This reading list provides a starting place for topics of ethics, racial reconciliation, and Civil Rights history.

  • The Legacy of Slavery (click here to read the lecture given at the University of Mississippi on October 25, 2005)
    Author: Rita Bender
  • Brother to a Dragonfly
    Author: Will Campbell
  • Forty Acres and Goat: A Memoir
    Author: Will Campbell
  • Providence
    Author: Will Campbell
  • Race and the renewal of the church (Christian perspectives on social problems)
    Author: Will Campbell
  • Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America
    Author: Dalton Conley
  • In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution
    Author: Joseph Crespino
  • Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
    Author: John Dittmer
  • From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
    Author: John Hope Franklin
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed
    Author: Paulo Freire
  • The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement (Human Tradition in America)
    Author: Susan M. Glisson
  • The Hauerwas Reader
    Author: Stanely Hauerwas
  • On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century
    Author: Sherrilyn A. Ifill
  • The White Man's Burden:Historical Origins of Racism in the United States
    Author: Winthrop Jordan
  • Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
    Author: Paul Kivel
  • Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
    Author: Nicholas Lemann
  • I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
    Author: Charles M. Payne
  • "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
    Author: Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Soul Work: Anti-Racist Theologies in Dialogue
    Author: Unitarian Universalist Association, Edited by Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones
  • Race Matters
    Author: Cornel West

    • Civil Rights Movement Bibliography, divided into sub-areas of interest
    Click here to open the PDF file
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