“[An] important collection….Michael G. Long deserves high praise indeed for unearthing [Marshall’s letters] and bringing them to light.” —Wil Haygood
Collected together for the first time in Marshalling Justice, here are selected letters written by one of the most influential and important activists in the American Civil Rights movement: the brilliant legal mind and footsoldier for justice and racial equality, Thurgood Marshall. The correspondences of a rebellious young attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Marshalling Justice paints an eye-opening portrait of Thurgood Marshall before he became the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, during his years as a groundbreaking and vibrant Civil Rights activist in the tradition of Martin Luther King and Julian Bond.

Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall

Biographies & Memoirs

Long, Michael G.

Community & Culture

Amistad

Amistad Pr

Nonviolence in the World’s Religions

The twenty-first century began with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Much has been written and debated on the relationship between faith and violence, with acts of terror at the forefront. However, the twentieth century also gave rise to many successful nonviolent protest movements. 
Nonviolence in the World’s Religions introduces the reader to the complex relationship between religion and nonviolence. Each of the essays delves into the contemporary and historical expressions of the world’s major religious traditions in relation to nonviolence. Contributors explore the literary and theological foundations of a tradition’s justification of nonviolence; the ways that nonviolence has come to expression in its beliefs, symbols, rituals, and other practices; and the evidence of nonviolence in its historic and present responses to conflict and warfare. The meanings of both religion and nonviolence are explored through engagement with nonviolence in Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Sikh, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Jain, and Pacific Island religious traditions. 
This is the ideal introduction to the relationship between religion and violence for undergraduate students, as well as for those in related fields, such as religious studies, peace and conflict studies, area studies, sociology, political science, and history.

Nonviolence in the World’s Religions: A Concise Introduction

History

Long, Jeffery D.

World

Routledge

About the Author\nYohuru Williams is Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. The former chief historian of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, he appeared in Ken Burns’s Jackie Robinson and was one of the hosts of Sound Smart, the History Channel’s popular YouTube program. His educational videos on civil rights, social movements, and other historic events have garnered over 1 million views. He is the author of numerous books, including Teaching Beyond the Textbook, and he has appeared on a variety of media outlets, including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, HISTORY, BET, CSPAN, and NPR.\nMichael G. Long is the author or editor of books on civil rights, religion, and politics, including Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography, which was selected as a best book of the year by Publishers' Weekly; Gay Is Good: The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny; Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball; Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement; and Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall. Long also served as an expert historian for Ken Burns's documentary on Jackie Robinson. He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.\nAn enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights.\nAccording to Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson was “a sit-inner before the sit-ins, a freedom rider before the Freedom Rides.” According to Hank Aaron, Robinson was a leader of the Black Power movement before there was a Black Power movement. According to his wife, Rachel Robinson, he was always Jack, not Jackie―the diminutive form of his name bestowed on him in college by white sports writers. And throughout his whole life, Jack Robinson was a fighter for justice, an advocate for equality, and an inspiration beyond just baseball.\nFrom prominent Robinson scholars Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long comes Call Him Jack, an exciting biography that recovers the real person behind the legend, reanimating this famed figure’s legacy for new generations, widening our focus from the sportsman to the man as a whole, and deepening our appreciation for his achievements on the playing field in the process.

Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter

Children's Books

Williams, Yohuru

Biographies

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

A gripping middle-grade history that offers a fresh look at the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by spotlighting the protest's radical roots and the underappreciated role of Black women--includes a wealth of contemporary black-and-white photos throughout. Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined point in the future. It was a revolutionary march with its own controversies and problems, the themes of which still resonate to this day. Without diminishing the words of Dr. King, More Than a Dream looks at the march through a wider lens, using Black newspaper reports as a primary resource, recognizing the overlooked work of socialist organizers and Black women protesters, and repositioning this momentous day as radical in its roots, methods, demands, and results. From Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, the acclaimed authors of Call Him Jack, comes a classic-in-the-making that will transform our modern understanding of this legendary event in the fight for racial justice and civil rights.

More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

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 the baseball diamond. Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography explores the faith that, Robinson said, carried him through the torment and abuse he suffered for integrating the major leagues and drove him to get involved in the civil rights movement. Marked by sacrifice and service, inclusiveness and hope, Robinson's faith shaped not only his character but also baseball and America itself.

Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography: The Faith of a Boundary-Breaking Hero

Lamb, Chris

Religion & Spirituality

Westminster/John Knox Press

Never-before-published letters offer a rich portrait of the baseball star as a fearless advocate for racial justice at the highest levels of American politics Jackie Robinson's courage on the baseball diamond is one of the great stories of the struggle for civil rights in America, and his Hall of Fame career speaks for itself. But we no longer hear Robinson speak for himself; his death at age fifty-three in 1972 robbed America of his voice far too soon. In First Class Citizenship, Jackie Robinson comes alive on the page for the first time in decades. The scholar Michael G. Long has unearthed a remarkable trove of Robinson's correspondence with--and personal replies from--such towering figures as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, and Barry Goldwater. These extraordinary conversations reveal the scope and depth of Robinson's effort during the 1950s and 1960s to rid America of racism. Writing eloquently and with evident passion, Robinson charted his own course, offering his support to Democrats and to Republicans, questioning the tactics of the civil rights movement, and challenging the nation's leaders when he felt they were guilty of hypocrisy--or worse. Through his words as well as his actions, Jackie Robinson truly personified the "first class citizenship" that he considered the birthright of all Americans, whatever their race.

First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson

Times Books

“Brings together not only an extraordinary set of documents by and about the postbaseball Robinson but, through these letters, an extraordinary account of the times.” —Gerald Early, BookForum
Jackie Robinson’s courage on the baseball diamond is one of the great stories of the civil rights struggle, but he was a fighter off the field as well. In First Class Citizenship, Michael G. Long unearths a remarkable trove of Robinson’s correspondence with such towering political figures as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, and Barry Goldwater. These extraordinary conversations reveal the scope and depth of Robinson’s effort to rid America of racism.
Writing eloquently and with evident passion, Robinson offered support to both Democrats and Republicans, and challenged the nation’s leaders when he felt they were guilty of hypocrisy—or worse. Through his words and actions, Robinson personified the “first class citizenship” he considered the birthright of all Americans, whatever their race.

Holt Paperbacks

Over the past half-century much has been written about the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. Since the 1955 march in Montgomery, Alabama, King has been quoted, studied, and critiqued. Informed by the plethora of writings and drawing heavily on King's own words-especially from his column Advice for Creative Living, Michael Long shares with us King's vision of the good life, his notion of creative living that can become our own. King had an unwavering belief that the one and only starting point of creative living is the God of love and justice as revealed in Jesus of Nazareth. He preached time and time again that only God can pull us out of despair and set us on the right road to creative living-a life reflective of the love and justice that are an integral part of the character of God. If our hearts are not right, King preached, it is because we have not opened them to the God who can make a way out of no way, transforming hate into love, injustice into justice, and destructiveness into creativity. 
Long brings together the main ideas of King's writings and the overall concepts of his life in a conversational and reader-friendly style. He gives careful attention to King studies and criticism about King's life in extensive footnotes that provide up-to-date scholarship for more serious students of King while allowing general readers to focus on the advice of King presented in the narrative-advice that will help us all to live creatively and that will ground us in even the most groundless times.

Martin Luther King Jr. on Creative Living

Chalice Pr

Michael Long shows us that we do not have to let our lives slip away moment by moment; we we learn to use each moment to experience life fully, abundantly, and joyfully. Rather than living for the moment, Long helps us to live in the moment and to let the moment live in us. Time becomes a gift and a resource for transforming our character and actions into reflections of divine love. We learn to appreciate the past without letting it take over the present, and we learn to hope for the future without forgetting about the here and now. Long gives us a way to embrace each day for what it offers, both joy and pain, emptiness and love, and to make life happen. From the first page, we begin to see the significance of every second in our lives and our unbreakable relationship with time. Long shows us what it means to be in love with life, and in love with the God who gives life to all.

Have the Time of Your Life: Living for God in Each Moment

Christian Books & Bibles

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Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall

Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall

Nonviolence in the World’s Religions: A Concise Introduction

Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter

More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography: The Faith of a Boundary-Breaking Hero

First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson

First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson

Martin Luther King Jr. on Creative Living

Have the Time of Your Life: Living for God in Each Moment