In honor of John Lewis’s Legacy (a civil rights icon, activist, politician, Freedom Rider, and American leader), we wanted to share some ways you can follow in his foot steps (and it’s pretty darn simple); be active, be a voice, and vote. There are plenty of ways as allies you can help, and one of the most important ways is to educate yourself and take the time to have these conversations. It is actually astounding how much we weren’t taught in schools, so here are some guides for you a long the way:Documentaries to watch:John Lewis: Get in the WayFreedom Riders13thJewel’s Catch OneLA 92’Books on history and a good starting point:Across that Bridge by John LewisYour Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre LordeWhy I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-LodgeWalking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John LewisStamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. KendiA People's History of the United States by Howard ZinnWhite Rage by Carol AndersonSo You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoBecoming by Michelle ObamaTears We cannot Stop by Michael Eric DysonBooks on Anti-Racism :The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders WalkerThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle AlexanderThe Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran MuhammadHow to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiNobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont HillLies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. LoewenWhy Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel TatumThe Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard RothsteinBlackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy by Darrel PinckneyFiction & Graphic Novels to read :March ( a trilogy ) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, illustrator Nate PowellVanishing Half by Brit BennettConjure Women by Afia AtakoraThe Icarus Girl by Helen OyeyemiThe Underground Abductor by Nathan HaleIf you are a Feminist, these topics matter to you too :Beloved by Toni MorrisonHow We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorBlack Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill CollinsAin't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell HooksBad Feminist by Roxane GayIn Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice WalkerWomen Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisAssata: An Autobiography by Assata ShakurLGBTQ+ books to read:Giovanni's Room by James BaldwinUnapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene CarruthersNo Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies edited by E. Patrick JohnsonSince I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez PurnellThe Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann ChinNo Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell L. MooreThe Summer We Got Free by Mia McKenzieBook Lists to Follow: by Divya from Gotham Taxidermy on bookshop.orgReferences/Resources used:Link to the anti-racist resource guide that Victoria Alexander createdInstagram & newspaper @goodgoodgoodcoWomen Love TechGraphic Novels for Black, Brown, Queer Girlsbookshop.orgWilla’s Books and Vinyl, 1734 E 63rd St, Kansas City, MO 64110
