Educational Materials

Resources for enhancing awareness and understanding of racial history and terminology.

Books

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


Books

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