Dig Into Some Books

Work your way through the reading list that brings us #Back2TheBasics. These books provide historical context to the Leadership Message in the summer edition of Love & Justice Footprint, TPI's newsletter.

Walker, D. (1830). Walker’s appeal, in four articles; together with a preamble to the coloured citizens of the world. Boston: David Walker.

Hill, L. H. (Ed.). (1993). David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (Reprint). University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (1909). John Brown. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company.

DeCaro Jr., L. A. (2002). Fire from the midst of you: A religious life of John Brown. New York: NYU Press.

Wells-Barnett, I. B. (1892). Southern horrors: Lynch law in all its phases. New York: New York Age Print.

Wells-Barnett, I. B. (1895). The red record: Tabulated statistics and alleged causes of lynchings in the United States. Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry.

Smith, L. (1944). Strange fruit. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock.

Smith, L. (1949). Killers of the dream. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Lee, C. K. (1999). For freedom’s sake: The life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Mills, K. (1993). This little light of mine: The life of Fannie Lou Hamer. New York: Dutton.

Chisholm, S. (1970). Unbought and unbossed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Chisholm, S. (1973). The good fight. New York: Harper & Row.

Welsing, F. C. (1991). The Isis papers: The keys to the colors. Chicago: Third World Press.

Welsing, F. C. (1974). The Cress theory of color-confrontation and racism. In B. L. Jones (Ed.), Black studies in the university (pp. 145–166). New Haven: Yale University Press.

Davis, A. Y. (1981). Women, race & class. New York: Random House.Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are prisons obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press.

Akbar, N. (1984). The community of self. Tallahassee, FL: Mind Productions & Associates.

Akbar, N. (1996). Breaking the chains of psychological slavery. Tallahassee, FL: Mind Productions & Associates.

hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. New York: Routledge.

hooks, b. (2000). All about love: New visions. New York: William Morrow.