Resources for enhancing awareness and understanding of racial history and terminology.
A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow by David L. Chappell
Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism by George Yancey
Beyond Rhetoric: Reconciliation as a Way of Life by Samuel George Hines and Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Crossing the Tracks: Hope for the Hopeless and Help for the Poor in Rural Mississippi and Your Community by Dolphus Weary with Josh Dear and William Hendricks
Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long For by Wayne Gordon and John M. Perkins
God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights by Charles Marsh
How to Heal Our Racial Divide: What the Bible Says, and the First Christians Knew, About Racial Reconciliation by Derwin L. Gray
I Ain’t Comin’ Back! by Dolphus Weary and Williams Hendricks
My Mind Set on Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 (American Ways) by John A. Salmond
One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love by John Perkins
Oneness Embraced: Reconciliation, The Kingdom, and How We Are Stronger Together by Tony Evans
Open Friendship in a Closed Society: Mission Mississippi and a Theology of Friendship by Peter Slade
Pieces From the Past: Voices of Heroic Women in Civil Rights by Joanne Prichard Morris, Joan Mulholland, Betty Pearson, Stanley Dearman, Constance Slaughter Harvey, John C. Brittain, Lawrence Guyot, Rose Freeman Massey, Charles McLaurin, Regena Lynn Thomas, Barbara Devine Russell, Monica Land and Others
Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism by Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge — Our Only Hope by Curtiss Paul DeYoung
The Church and the Racial Divide: Finding Unity in the Race – Transcending Gospel by Trevor Atwood
The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander