Price: $15.00

Reveille for Radicals

Saul Alinsky

Saul Alinsky was the initiator of the modern community organizing movement in the 1930’s through the 1960’s. He led poor communities throughout urban America to organize and to engage the political and economic powers of their cities in order to significantly improve their lives.  Reveille for Radicals, first published in 1946 is considered the primer of community organizing.

Price: $21.00

Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action and Justice

Ed Chambers

Mentored by Alinsky for more than a decade, Ed Chambers succeeded Alinsky as director of the Industrial Areas Foundation.  Roots for Radicals, Studs Terkel writes, “is a how-to book in the best sense, designed for community organizers and clergy  to know, to feel, and mostly to think creatively about how ... to incite the powerless to find the power and to speak themselves.”

Price: $16.00

Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church

Samuel G. Freedman

Publishers Weekly writes of Upon This Rock, “Freedman offers an indelible portrait of New York City’s St Paul Community Baptist Church, an oasis in a blighted section of Brooklyn, led by the dynamic Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood.  Freedman writes movingly of the church’s struggles and dramas and how it has moved into a prominent political role in New York won through its astute use of the principles of community organizing.”  Here is how to do urban ministry!

Price: $14.00

Activism That Makes Sense: Congregations and Community Organization

Gregory F. Pierce

Many churches, when faced with great need in their neighborhoods, are paralyzed or indecisive.  But if they are truly to have an impact on their communities, congregations must involve themselves in broad-based organizing that is large and powerful enough to confront the underlying causes of need.  This book is a primer for lay leaders and clergy who want to move their congregations into the arena of activism.