Resources

Texts

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King
• Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence by Martin Luther King
• The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois

Media

• Wright’s Audacity of Hope — This is the original Reverend Wright sermon that inspired the title of Barack Obama’s book of the same name.
• American Blackout — An important 2006 film on the disenfranchisement of African Americans in 2000 and 2004, told through the trials and tribulation of former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.