CHAPTER 1: Son of a Preacher Man
1. Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993), 21.
2. William J. Barber, “The Disciple Assemblies of Eastern North Carolina,” master’s thesis, Butler University, 1959.
3. For a brief history of the Fusion Party in North Carolina and the Wilmington, North Carolina, coup d’état of 1898, see Timothy B. Tyson, “The Ghosts of 1898: Wilmington’s Race Riot and the Rise of White Supremacy,” special insert, News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), November 17, 2006, http://media2.newsobserver.com/content/media/2010/5/3/ghostsof1898.pdf.
4. Cornel West, Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 1983): “The assimilationist response to the challenges of self-image and self-determination is this: a rejection of Afro-American culture and total assimilation into American society” (78–80).
5. Proverbs 11:14 (Revised Standard Version; all Bible citations are from this version unless otherwise indicated).
6. Micah 6:8.
CHAPTER 2: My First Fight
1. Psalm 94:5–7.
2. Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002).
3. Psalm 94:16.
4. Oliver Johnson, William Lloyd Garrison and His Times (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1881), 199–200.
5. Psalm 94:17.
6. Hebrews 10:39 (New International Version).
CHAPTER 3: Learning to Stand Together
1. II Corinthians 12:9.
2. Luke 4:18.
3. William Turner, “Black Evangelicalism: Theology, Politics, Race,” Journal of Religious Thought (Howard Divinity School) 45, no. 2 (1989): 40–56.
CHAPTER 4: From Banquets to Battle
1. Isaiah 58:6–8.
2. Kids Count, http://datacenter.kidscount.org/.
3. Ezekiel 48:35.
4. North Carolina Constitution, Article I, Section 1, and Article XI, Section 4, http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/legislation/constitution/ncconstitution.html.
CHAPTER 5: Resistance Is Your Confirmation
1. Hood quoted in Sidney Andrews, The South Since the War: 14 Weeks of Travel and Observation (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866), 122.
2. Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986), Justia.com, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/478/30/case.html.
3. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 08-205 (2010), Justia.com, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/558/08-205.
4. “NC House Speaker Tillis—Divide and Conquer!,” YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ewESI5is4&list=PLCD69FC75ACE0EFF4; accessed May 24, 2015.
5. Luke 4:18, 29–30.
CHAPTER 6: Many a Conflict, Many a Doubt
1. Martin Luther King Jr., “Palm Sunday Sermon on M. K. Gandhi Delivered at Dexter Ave. Baptist Church,” March 22, 1959, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/palm-sunday-sermon-mohandas-k-gandhi-delivered-dexter-avenue-baptist-church.
2. Martin Luther King Jr., “The Value of Unions,” speech, October 7, 1965, Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, quoted in AFL-CIO report, http://www.aflcio.org/content/download/2511/24271/ King’s+Speeces+to+Labor.pdf.
3. See Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name (New York: Doubleday/Anchor, 2009). In 2012 PBS released a documentary by the same name that narrates Blackmon’s groundbreaking history.
4. This argument is detailed in Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow (New York: New Press, 2010).
5. Philip J. Cook, “Potential Savings from Abolition of the Death Penalty in North Carolina,” American Law and Economics Review 11, no. 2 (December 2009): 428–529, http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/CookCostRpt.pdf.
6. Dr. King’s most famous summary of this four-step process is in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” TeachingAmericanHistory.org, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-from-birmingham-city-jail-excerpts/.
7. North Carolina Constitution, Article 1, Section 15, http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/legislation/constitution/ncconstitution.html.
8. Isaiah 10:1.
CHAPTER 7: The Darkness Before the Dawn
1. Jeremiah 17:9.
2. North Carolina Constitution, Article 1, Section 12.
3. Much of this was disclosed as the result of a subpoena in a suit the NAACP filed against the state. For a good summary by investigative journalists, see Olga Pierce, Justin Elliott, and Theodoric Meyer, “How Dark Money Helped Republicans Hold the House and Hurt Voters,” ProPublica, December 21, 2012, http://www.propublica.org/article/how-dark-money-helped-republicans-hold-the-house-and-hurt-voters.
4. Luke 12:2–3.
5. Gar Alperovitz, America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy (San Francisco: Wiley, 2006), 17.
6. These statistics and those below are from the University of North Carolina Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity, http://www.law.unc.edu/centers/poverty/.
7. Psalm 118:22.
8. Luke 12:11–12.
9. 2 Kings 3:15, King James Version.
CHAPTER 8: A Moral Movement for the Nation
1. See Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–1965 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), 41–49.
2. Nick Wing, “Moral Monday Draws ‘Moron Monday’ Insult from Republican as Dozens Arrested in North Carolina,” Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/moral-monday-north-carolina_n_3420957.html.
3. Psalm 118:23–24.
CHAPTER 9: America’s Third Reconstruction
1. Fergus M. Bordewich, Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement (New York: HarperCollins/Amistad Press, 2005).
2. Eric Foner, A Short History of Reconstruction, 1863–1877 (New York: Harper & Row, 1990), 254–55. For the interracial Readjusters movement, see Jane Dailey, Before Jim Crow: The Politics of Race in Postemancipation Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), especially 1–14. See also J. Morgan Kousser, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880–1910 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974), 171–75. For the fusion movement in North Carolina, see Helen G. Edmonds, The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894–1901 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1951).
3. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, eds., The Reader’s Companion to American History (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), 917–23.
4. For North Carolina, see David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson, Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot and Its Legacy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), and H. Leon Prather, “We Have Taken a City”: The Wilmington Racial Massacre and Coup of 1898 (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1984). For Atlanta, see David Fort Godshalk, Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Remaking of American Race Relations (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005), and Gregory Mixon, The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class and Violence in a New South City (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005). For Springfield, see Roberta Senechal, The Sociogenesis of a Race Riot: Springfield, Illinois, in 1908 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990).
5. See Charles J. Ogletree Jr., All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v. Board of Education (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004).
6. See Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (Boston: Beacon Press, 2013), chapter 3; 93.
7. Lee Atwater, quoted in Alexander P. Lamis, ed., Southern Politics in the 1990s (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999), 8.
8. Frederick Douglass, “Speech on the Dred Scott Decision,” May 1857, TeachingAmericanHistory.org, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/speech-on-the-dred-scott-decision-2.
9. Statistics in this paragraph from Public Policy Polling of North Carolina for 2013, http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/.