Movements Throughout History: An Educational Resource Guide

During this time, many of you are looking for ways to educate yourselves and others about the critical issues we are facing. We see you, we hear you and we hope that these resources help you meet these needs.

NC State University Online Resources

To access any of the resources listed below, simply click the title and log in with your NC State credentials, or go to catalog.lib.ncsu.edu, type in the title and search.

Early American Protests

• American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution by Harlow Giles Unger
• The Yankee Tea-Party by Henry C. Watson

Women’s Rights

• Women and Social Protest by Guida West and Rhoda Lois Blumberg
• The Women’s Liberation Movement: Impacts and Outcomes by Kristina Schulz

Civil Rights Movement

• Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
• Civil Rights: (1954-2015) by Michael Shalley-Jensen
• Sound Bites of Protest by Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich: foreword by Dorothy I. Height
• The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle by T.V. Reed
• In the Heat of the Summer: The New York Riots of 1964 and the War on Crime by Michael W. Flamm
• Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi: Protest Politics and the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1960-1965 by James P. Marshall and Staughton Lynd
• Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of The 1960s by Risa Goluboff
• The Raleigh Civil Rights Movement from California Newsreel (video)
• James Baldwin: Speech on Civil Rights from Educational Video Group (video)

LGBTQ+ Rights

• Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America by Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney
• Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy by Walter Frank
• The Stonewall Riots: the Fight for LGBT Rights by Tristan Poehlmann
• Stonewall Uprising from PBS (video)

Post Civil Rights Era Activism

• Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties edited by Jo Freeman and Victoria Johnson
• Protest Politics in the Marketplace: Consumer Activismin the Corporate Age by Caroline Heldman
• Taking Back the Academy! : History of Activism, History As Activism by Jim Downs, Jennifer Manion and Eric Foner
• The Wilmington Ten: Violence, Injustice, and the Rise of Black Politics in The 1970s by Kenneth Robert Janken
• American Patriotism, American Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties by Simon Hall

Black Lives Matter (2013-present)

• Black Lives Matter by Sue Bradford Edwards
• Black Lives Matter & Music: Protest, Intervention, and Reflection edited by Fernando Orejuela and Stephanie Shonekan; foreword by Portia K. Maultsby.
• Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America edited by Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard; foreword by Charles Payne
• American History, Race and the Struggle for Equality: An Unfinished Journey by Masaki Kawashima
• Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candice Watts Smith
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Black Lives Matter from Netherlands Public Broadcasting (video)
• TEDTalks: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi: An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter from TED (video)

Other Protest Literature

• Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and other Surprising Outcomes by Anne Nassauer
• A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd by Matt Clement
• Protest Publics: Toward a New Concept of Mass Civic Action edited by Nina Belyaeva, Victor Albert and Dmitry G. Zaytsev

Other Resources

Public Libraries

Do you have a public library card? If so, then you also have free access to ebooks and audiobooks through Hoopla and OverDrive. Signing up for these websites requires your public library card information and a valid email address. 

For example, Wake County Public Libraries has the following books available for online checkout:

• What Was the March on Washington? by Kathleen Krull
• We March by Shane W. Evans

Audiobooks and Podcasts

Want to learn more about the history of racism? Listen to the audiobook version of Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi on Spotify. (If you are interested in purchasing print copies of Ibram X. Kendi’s work, he recommends that you “call up your local indie bookstore.“)

Want to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement? Listen to Voices of the Movement, a podcast by the Washington Post and Johnathan Capeheart.

Want to learn more about modern day activists? Check out the following podcasts:

• Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
• The Activist Files Podcast from the Center for Constitutional Rights

Resources compiled by Andie Batt, librarian, African American Cultural Center.