Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America
Jimmie R. Hawkins
Westminster John Knox Press
Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from pre-colonial times though the George Floyd protests of 2020 highlighting the role of Black identity in shaping protest: from slave ship mutinies, the abolitionist movement, different approaches to protest from Frederick Douglas, W. E. B. Dubois, and Booker T. Washington to protests led by Black institutions and BLM up through protests by today's Black athletes, musicians, and intellectuals Lebron James, Beyonce, and Kendrick Lamar. Hawkins also covers the backlash to these protests, including the Jim Crow era, the Red Summer of 1919, and modern-day wars on the Black community in the form of the War on Drugs and voter suppression.