Michael G Long
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
"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 way too political to describe the host of a children's program known for its focus on feelings. We have restricted Fred Rogers to the realm of entertainment, children, and feelings, and we've ripped...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Kids have always been on the front lines of the fights for justice. From marches protesting child labor to the student strike that helped build the case for Brown v. Board of Education to modern-day March for Our Lives and the Climate Strike, 'Kids on the March' tells the empowering story of children and teens throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first century rallying to fight for liberty, justice, and equality"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Using Black newspaper reports from the period as a primary resource, this riveting book recounts the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, which still resonates to this day.