"Unbroken and Unbowed: A History of Black Protest in America” by Rev. Jimmie Hawkins

The story of African and African-American resistance to oppression and racism from the earliest days of enslavement through the George Floyd protests of 2020. Protests including slave ship mutinies, the abolitionist movement, the different approaches of Frederick Douglas, W. E. B. Dubois, and Booker T. Washington, protest led by various Black institutions, Black Lives Matter movements, and protests of today's Black athletes, musicians, and intellectuals. 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. Rev. Hawkins is director of the Office of Public Witness of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the public policy advocacy and information office of the denomination.