Nonviolence And Racial Justice Mp3

Downloadable Audio File

BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
This is a downloadable mp3 version of MLK's talk. After your purchase is finalized, you will be sent a link to download the audio file. Those who heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak on "Nonviolence and Racial Justice" at Cape May in 1958 gave him a standing ovation at the end of his remarks. His words call to us today: "Now I cannot say that violence never wins any victories; it occasionally wins victories. Nations often receive their independence through the use of violence. But I can say this, that that is all it does. Violence only achieves temporary victory; but it never can achieve ultimate peace. It creates many more social problems than it solves. And violence ends up defeating itself."

2008 MP3 DOWNLOAD Audio

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Nonviolence And Racial Justice

Talk Given At The Fgc Gathering June 1958 In Cape May, New Jersey

BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Those who heard Martin Luther King Jr. speak on "Nonviolence and Racial Justice" at Cape May in 1958 gave him a standing ovation at the end of his remarks. His words, though given at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, call to us today: "Now I cannot say that violence never wins any victories; it occasionally wins victories. Nations often receive their independence through the use of violence. But I can say this, that that is all it does. Violence only achieves temporary victory; but it never can achieve ultimate peace. It creates many more social problems than it solves. And violence ends up defeating itself. SPECIAL OFFER PAMPLET & CD."

Quaker Press of FGC 1958 40 MIN+PAMPH Audio

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On Doing Good (9217)

The Quaker Experiment

BY GERALD JONAS
SECONDHAND COPY - Good condition book, but poor dust jacket. A look at Quaker work with Native Americans and with slavery, an early attempt to look at Quaker contributions in these areas subsequently reexamined in Fit for Freedom. He then looks at the work of AFSC in more recent years.

Scibners 1971 175 PP. Cloth

$10.00 USED - availability checked May 22nd 11:55am EDT

Parallel Communities

The Underground Railroad In South Jersey

BY DENNIS RIZZO
For slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad, names like Springtown and Snow Hill promised sanctuary and salvation. Under the pressures of racial prejudice, free blacks, runaway slaves and even many Native Americans formed island communities on the periphery of many South Jersey towns. These primarily African American communities preserved traditions, acted like extended families and created a social bond between diverse peoples; together they formed parallel communities based on, but independent of, the larger towns and villages.

The History Press 2008 160 PP. Paper

$19.99 (in stock)

The Pigment Of Your Imagination

Mixed Race In A Global Society

BY JOY M. ZAREMBKA
Throughout the world arbitrary racial notions are used to define who is '"black" and who is "white" but the lines become blurred with people of mixed racial heritage. Friend Joy Zarembka and her brother Tommy -- who are featured on the front cover of the book -- share the same parents and have striking physical similarities, yet were labelled at birth with very different racial designations; Joy was described as "black" and her brother as "white." After extensive research in Britain, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Jamaica, Joy Zarembka explores the vastly divergent interpretations of racial identity. Zarembka leads us to a new understanding of racial identity.

Madera Press 2007 312 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Pillar Of Fire

America In The King Years 1963-65 Sale Paperback

BY TAYLOR BRANCH
The second volume of America in the King Years. The Book begins with the events preceding the "Birmingham spring," which took place in April and May of 1963 when young marchers, as Branch writes, "released collateral forces that drew them together. Seekers of the black vote in rural Mississippi, who literally could not move in 1963, rose to dominate the pivotal year of 1964." The volume ends with King's vow "to bring a voting bill into being" in Selma, Alabama.

Simon and Schuster 1998 746 PP. Paper

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The Presumption Of Guilt

The Arrest Of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And Race, Class And Crime In America

BY CHARLES OGLETREE
Shortly after noon on Tuesday, July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor, was mistakenly arrested by Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley for attempting to break into his own home. The ensuing media firestorm ignited debate across the country. The Crowley-Gates incident was a clash of absolutes, underscoring the tension between black and white, police and civilians, and the privileged and less privileged in modern America. Charles Ogletree, one of the country's foremost experts on civil rights, uses this incident as a lens through which to explore issues of race, class, and crime, with the goal of creating a more just legal system for all.

Palgrave 2010 255 PP. Cloth

$22.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

The Promised Land

The Great Black Migration And How It Changed America

BY NICHOLAS LEMANN
A groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.

Penguin 1996 408 PP Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Racism

Beginners Guide Series

BY ALANA LENTIN
Despite the fact that we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars promoting tolerance, racism is still prevalent today. In fact, since 9-11 the subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more important than ever before. Alana Lentin traces the development and mutation of ideas about race, through political history right up to modern debates about ethnicity and xenophobia, and considers the implications of a raceless society amid concerns about diluted traditions and identities. Thought-provoking and intelligent, this invaluable resource exposes the roots of racist thought, and reveals how it has remained a part of our everyday lives.

Oneworld - Oxford 2008 166 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Red Summer

The Summer Of 1919 And The Awakening Of Black America

BY CAMERON MCWHIRTER
A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings. After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War. Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings swept the country for eight months. From April to November of 1919, the racial unrest rolled across the South into the North and the Midwest, even to the nation's capital. Millions of lives were disrupted, and hundreds of lives were lost.

Holt 2011 352 PP. Cloth

$32.50 (in stock)

The Religious World Of Antislavery Women

Spirituality In The Lives Of Five Abolitionist Lecturers

BY ANNA SPEICHER
Did radical abolitionist women abandon the constraints of religion in order to pursue their personal and political goals? The 19C reformers who are the subjects of this book Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Sallie Holley, Abby Kelley, and Lucretia Mott-did, indeed, reject what they found to be the repressive features of the Christianity of their day. Their religiosity, however, remained fundamental to their world view. This book explores the dimensions of this evolving faith, which was critical in shaping their decisions and actions throughout their lives and highlights the leadership that these women exercised within the antislavery community.

Syracuse University Press 1999 242 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Rev James D Mcmanus

The Civil Rights Years - The Movement In Microcosm

BY PAUL WAHRHAFTIG
While there are many nationally recognized heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, little is known of the unheralded rural and small town activists. The Rev. J.D. McManus was one such activist who struggled to make Civil Rights a reality in his corner of the nation. His amazing story is told in the new book by Paul Wahrhaftig and gives us new insights into the realities of organizing for and implementing civil rights in the rural and small town South.

Fickle Press 2006 190 PP. Paper

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The Seed Cracked Open

Growing Beyond Racism

BY VANESSA JULYE
In this keynote address for the July 2005 New York Yearly Meeting annual sessions, Vanessa Julye addresses the reality of racism within the Religious Society of Friends. Stories from generations of her family, and the experiences of other Black Friends across time, make vivid the sense of isolation and barriers people of color face in the white, middle-class Friends culture. Vanessa Julye goes beyond critique, however, to present significant questions and additional resources as a ministry to heal and to empower Friends to "move further along the spectrum of racism."

Quaker Press of FGC 2006 32 PP. Paper

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Slavery By Another Name

The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War 2

BY DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON
Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter. By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the stories of those caught up in the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today in the justice system and elsewhere.

Anchor 2008 468 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

Speaking Treason Fluently

Anti-racist Reflections From An Angry White Male

BY TIM WISE
In this highly anticipated follow-up to White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, activist Tim Wise examines the way in which institutional racism continues to shape the contours of daily life in the United States, and the ways in which white Americans reap enormous privileges from it. The essays included in this collection span the last ten years of Wise's writing and cover all the hottest racial topics of the past decade: affirmative action, Hurricane Katrina, racial tension in the wake of the Duke lacrosse scandal, white school shootings, racial profiling, phony racial unity in the wake of 9/11, and the political rise of Barack Obama.

Soft Skull 2008 352 PP. Paper

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Strength To Love

BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
"If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love," writes Coretta Scott King. "I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence." In these short meditative and sermonic pieces, some of them composed in jails and all of them crafted during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights struggle, Dr. King articulated and espoused in a deeply personal compelling way his commitment to justice and to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual conversion that makes his work as much a blueprint today for Christian discipleship as it was then.

Fortress 1981 154 PP. Paper

$18.00 (in stock)

There Is A River

The Black Struggle For Freedom In America

BY VINCENT HARDING
A widely acclaimed reevaluation of black history in America from the beginning of slavery in West Africa to the end of the Civil War in America. Written from an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African Americans, both well and little known, to achieve freedom from slavery and oppression.

Harcourt 1993 472 PP. Paper

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They Thought They Were Free

The Germans, 1933-45 (2nd Ed.)

BY MILTON MEYER
"Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, this book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening."--Hans Kohn, "New York Times Book Review"

University of Chicago Press 1966 368 PP. Paper

$18.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Toward A Tenderer Humanity And A Nobler Womanhood

African American Women's Clubs In Turn-of-the-century Chicago

BY ANNE KNUPFER
During the Progressive Era, over 150 African American women's clubs flourished in Chicago. Through these clubs, women created a vibrant social world of their own, seeking to achieve social and political uplift by educating themselves and the members of their communities. In politics, they battled legal discrimination, advocated anti-lynching laws, and fought for suffrage. In the tradition of other mothering, in which the the community shares in the care and raising of all its children, the club women established kindergartens, youth clubs, and homes for the elderly.

NYU 1997 209 PP. Paper

$6.00 (in stock)

The Trader, The Owner, The Slave

Parallel Lives In The Age Of Slavery

BY JAMES WALVIN
John Newton (1725-1807), best-known as the writer of "Amazing Grace," was a slave captain who marshaled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition. Thomas Thistlewood (1721-1786), lived his life in a remote corner of western Jamaica, and his unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave-owner's life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), was practically unknown thirty years ago, but is now an iconic figure in black history and his experience as a slave who speaks out for the lives of millions who went unrecorded.

Vintage 2007 297 PP. Paper

$15.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Uprooting Racism

How White People Can Work For Racial Justice (revised And Expanded) (3rd Ed.)

BY PAUL KIVEL
"Uprooting Racism "offers a framework for understanding institutional racism. It provides practical suggestions, tools, examples, and advice on how white people can intervene in interpersonal and organizational situations to work as allies for racial justice. Completely revised and updated, this expanded third edition directly engages the reader through questions, exercises, and suggestions for action, and takes a detailed look at current issues such as affirmative action, immigration, and health care. It also includes a wealth of information about specific cultural groups such as Muslims, people with mixed-heritage, Native Americans, Jews, recent immigrants, Asian Americans, & latinos.

NewSociety 2011 324 PP. Paper

$19.95 (in stock)

Voices Of American Indian Assimilation And Resistance

Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, And Victoria Howard

BY SIBHAN SENIER
Between 1879 and 1934, the United States government made a concerted effort to dissolve tribes by dividing communally-held lands and forcing American Indians to adopt Euro-American practices. This book focuses on three remarkable women: white writer and activist and Quaker by marriage, Helen Hunt Jackson, , and political activist Sarah Winnemucca, whose Life Among the Piutes is believed to be the first Native American woman's autobiography; and Victoria Howard, the Clackamas Chinook storyteller who worked with Melville Jacobs in 1929 to transcribe hundreds of narratives, ethnographies, and songs.

Red River 2001 256 PP. Paper

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The Warmth Of Other Suns

The Epic Story Of America's Great Migration

BY ISABEL WILKERSON
Tells the story the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping in Mississippi for Chicago. George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a glittering medical career, Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. For this book she interviewed more than 1,000 people, and gained access to new data and official records. Suggested retail $30.00 our price $27.00

Random House 2010 640 PP. Cloth

$27.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)