Bill of Rights: On civic action

Lesson of the day

Not really a lesson today but a reading list

Listen: The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to our Constitution. And in our episode about the Bill of Rights, the final seven minutes of the episode, featuring Alvin Tillery and Linda Monk, is about the actions it took to make these rights actually apply to our lives. Listen here:

Here is a small handful of resources on protest and civic action from guests we are fortunate enough to have had on our show. There is no activity tied to this, just a suggestion to take time to read their responses and their work.

Alvin Tillery, author of Between Homeland and Motherland: writes on the long history of protest that deploy violence, threats, and intimidation

Keneshia Grant’s recent book: The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and the Realignment of American Politics in the 20th Century

Bakari Sellers: author of My Vanishing Country. Recently wrote an opinion on CNN called This is not the America I Want to Pass Down to my Children.

Martha Jones, author of the upcoming Vanguard: recently wrote about activism and the fight for the 19th amendment.

Danielle Allen, author of Our Declaration: Wrote an opinion for the Washington Post titled The situation is dire. We need a better normal at the end of this — and peace.