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Author:Michael G. Long
42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Explores Jackie Robinson's compelling and complicated legacy Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first...- $45.00
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42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Explores Jackie Robinson's compelling and complicated legacy Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first...- $17.95
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Author:Michael G. Long
Against Us, But for Us
What was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s understanding of the State? In this provocative and challenging work, Michael G. Long addresses this very basic but overlooked aspect of King's thought. In King's vision there are three important elements of his view of the State.First, King...- $31.50
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Author:Michael G. Long
Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics
Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom While we can all recall images of Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of a...- $27.95
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Author:Michael G. Long
Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball
Jackie Robinson is one of the most revered public figures of the twentieth century. He is remembered for both his athletic prowess and his strong personal character. The world knows him as the man who crossed baseball's color line, but there is much more...- $19.95
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Author:Michael G. Long
Christian Peace and Nonviolence: A Documentary History
From the Sermon on the Mount to the twenty-first century, this comprehensive reader recounts the Christian message of peace and nonviolence. Through testimony by the confessors and martyrs of the early church, the voices of medieval figures like St. Benedict and St. Francis, as...- $42.00
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Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny
Contrary to popular notions, today's LGBT movement did not begin with the Stonewall riots in 1969. Long before Stonewall, there was Franklin Kameny (1925-2011), one of the most significant figures in the gay rights movement. Beginning in 1958, he encouraged gay people to embrace...- $36.95
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Author:Michael G. Long
Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography: The Faith of a Boundary-Breaking Hero
Jackie Robinson believed in a God who sides with the oppressed and who calls us to see one another as sisters and brothers. This faith was a powerful but quiet engine that drove and sustained him as he shattered racial barriers on and beyond...- $22.00
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Author:Michael G. Long
Legacy of Billy Graham: Critical Reflections on America's Greatest Evangelist
Perhaps no individual has had more of an effect on twentieth-century American Christianity than the renowned evangelist Billy Graham, whose work has been widely influential in arenas from the rising evangelical movement to the White House. Although Graham's influence on evangelicalism has long been...- $35.00
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Author:Michael G. Long
Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement: Keeping the Dream Straight?
Martin Luther King Jr. was neither an advocate for nor an enemy of gay rights, but this has not stopped both sides of the debate from using his words in their arguments. His widow, Coretta Scot King, cited them in her campaign for gay...- $54.99
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Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers
Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because he wore colorful, soft sweaters made by his mother. Nor do we usually imagine him as a pacifist; that adjective seems...- $34.95
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Author:Michael G. Long
Phyllis Frye and the Fight for Transgender Rights: Volume 133
The first out transgender judge to be appointed in the United States, the first attorney to obtain corrected birth certificates for transgender people who had not undergone gender confirmation surgery, a survivor of conversion therapy, and author of a law review article that helped...- $34.95
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Author:Michael G. Long
Race Man: Selected Works, 1960-2015
Newsweek, Lit Hub, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution pick Race Man by Julian Bond as one of their Most-Anticipated Books of 2020!"This compilation of works by social activist and civil rights leader Julian Bond should be required reading in 2020."--Juliana Rose...- $22.95
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Author:Michael G. Long
Three Lines in a Circle: The Exciting Life of the Peace Symbol
One line straight down. One line to the right. One line to the left, then a circle. That was all--just three lines in a circle.This bold picture book tells the story of the peace symbol--designed in 1958 by a London activist protesting nuclear weapons--and...- $18.00
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Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington
This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of how openly gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin defied prejudice as he planned and organized the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. *An ALA Rainbow List Selection*WINNER, Best Illustrations - Black...- $18.99
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We the Resistance: Documenting a History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States
"A highly relevant, inclusive collection of voices from the roots of resistance. . . . Empowering words to challenge, confront, and defy."--Kirkus Reviews"This book fights fascism. This books offers hope. We The Resistance is essential reading for those who wish to understand how popular...- $23.95
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