|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the greatest orators in U.S. history and one of the most iconic leaders of the civil rights movement. To honor him, we recommend the following titles, including a collection of his classic sermons, a gift edition of Howard Thurman's classic treatise that inspired Dr. King, biographies of Rosa Parks and Del Seymour, and new books by Ta-Nehisi Coates and adrienne maree brown, For books by and about Dr. King, you can browse our complete selection of titles online.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most well known homilies. He had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for works such as "Loving Your Enemies" and "Shattered Dreams," and he continued to edit the volume after his release. Strength to Love includes these classic sermons selected by Dr. King. Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jesus and the Disinherited
by Howard Thurman
In this beautiful gift edition of the classic theological treatise, complete with a ribbon and silver gilded edges, celebrated theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman revolutionizes the way we read the gospel. Thurman lifts Jesus up as a partner who suffered with the oppressed, and the gospel as a manual of resistance for the disenfranchised and poor. With a new foreword by acclaimed womanist theologian Kelly Brown Douglas, this edition of Jesus and the Disinherited is a timeless testimony of faith that inspired Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and helped shape the civil rights movement.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories expose and distort our realities. In the first of The Message's three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning. Finally, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
When Rosa Parks died in 2005, she became the first woman and second African American to lie in honor at the nation's capital. Yet much of the memorialization reduced her historical contribution to a single act. In this revealing and definitive biography, historian Jeanne Theoharis shows that the standard portrayal of Rosa Parks is far from true. Presenting a powerful corrective to the popular iconography of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who with a single act birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis excavates Parks's political philosophy and six decades of political work to reveal a woman whose existence demonstrated— in her words—a "life history of being rebellious."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loving Corrections
by adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown’s Loving Corrections is a collection of love-based adjustments and reframes to grow our movements for liberation while navigating a society deeply fractured by greed, racism, and war. In this landmark book, brown invigorates her influential writing on belonging and accountability into the framework of "loving corrections," a generative space where rehearsals for the revolution become the everyday norm in relating to one another. Filled with practical wisdom on how to be a trustworthy communicator while providing bold visions for a shared future, Loving Corrections can speak to everyone caught in the crossroads of our political challenges and potential.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mayor of the Tenderloin
by Alison Owings
In Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco’s Tenderloin to reveal a life-affirming account of Del Seymour—whose addiction led him into years of homelessness, drug dealing, and pimping. Once sober, Seymour started Tenderloin Walking Tours and Code Tenderloin, a remarkable organization that teaches homeless people, recovering addicts, ex-felons, and other marginalized people how to keep a job. Compelling and bracingly honest, Mayor of the Tenderloin follows homelessness in one of America’s toughest neighborhoods as it was lived—in the words of someone who lived it and is now fighting to solve it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The work of the Unitarian Universalist Association is made possible by the generosity of member congregations and individual donors.
Find us on
|
|
|
|
|
