BOOK CLUB

These books share insights on the methods, actors, and timelines for social revolutions and movements. 

• Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections, edited by Jim Downs

• Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in the United States by Gilda Daniels

• One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson

• The Great Suppression by Zachary Roth

• Black Voter Suppression by Artika R. Tyner

• The Hidden History of the War on Voting by Thom Hartmann

• Give Us the Ballot by Are Berman

Many other good titles can be found on these websites:

• Civil Rights Teaching: Voting Rights, Democracy for Change 

• Princeton University Press

  • Books for understanding the US election,

  • Books for understanding how we vote

• Elections and Voting Summer Reading List, Harvard Kennedy School

We also looked at the critical messaging guidance from extensive qualitative and quantitative research by Research Collaborative and ASO Communications around protecting our vote in the 2026 midterm elections:

• Hands off our Vote

• Messaging Guidance for the Destruction of the Voting Rights Act

These books share insights on the methods, actors, and timelines for social revolutions and movements.

• The Seattle 7 Conspiracy: Protest on Trial by Kit Bakke 

• The Gang of Four: Four Leaders, Four Communities, One Friendship  by Bob Santos & Gary Iwamoto

• One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests by D.W. Gibson (and critique here) 

• Gay Seattle by Gary Atkins 

• Native Seattle by Coll Thrush 

• Seattle in Black and White by Joan Singler and others 

• Skid Road  by Murray Morgan 

• My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain by Aaron Dixon 

• This is an Uprising by Mark Engler & Paul Engler (A look at how nonviolent revolts are shaping the 21st century.)