CESAR CHAVEZ
Levy, Jacques E., Jacqueline M. Levy, and Fred Ross Jr. Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Pawel, Miriam. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
HOWARD THURMAN
Thurman, Howard. Disciplines of the Spirit. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
———. Jesus and the Disinherited. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1949. Reprinted with a foreword by Vincent Harding. Boston: Beacon, 1996.
———. A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life. Edited by Walter Earl Fluker and Catherine Tumber. Boston: Beacon, 1998.
Fujino, Diane C. Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Kochiyama, Yuri. Passing It On. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2004.
HOWARD KESTER
Dunbar, Anthony P. Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets, 1929–1959. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1981.
Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. New York: Knopf, 1994.
Martin, Robert Francis. Howard Kester and the Struggle for Social Justice in the South, 1904–1977. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1991.
ELLA BAKER
Day, Keri. Unfinished Business: Black Women, the Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012.
Grant, Joanne. Ella Baker: Freedom Bound. New York: Wiley, 1999.
Ross, Rosetta E. Witnessing and Testifying. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.
Miller, William D. Dorothy Day: A Biography. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984.
Troester, Rosalie Riegle. Voices from the Catholic Worker. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993.
JOHN A. RYAN
Broderick, Francis L. Right Reverend New Dealer John A. Ryan. New York: Macmillan, 1961.
Gearty, Patrick. The Economic Thought of Monsignor John A. Ryan. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1953.
Ryan, John A. Social Doctrine in Action: A Personal History. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941.
WILLIAM STRINGFELLOW
Stringfellow, William. A Private and Public Faith. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1962.
———. Suspect Tenderness: The Ethics of the Berrigan Witness. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
MAHALIA JACKSON
Best, Wallace. Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915–1952. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Harris, Michael W. The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Schwerin, Jules. Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
LUCY RANDOLPH MASON
Goldfield, Michael. “Race and the CIO: The Possibilities for Racial Egalitarianism during the 1930s and 1940s.” International Labor and Working-Class History 44 (1993): 1–32.
Mason, Lucy Randolph. To Win These Rights: A Personal Story of the CIO in the South. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.
Salmond, John A. Miss Lucy of the CIO: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolph Mason, 1882–1959. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
RICHARD TWISS
Twiss, Richard. Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015.
Twiss, Richard, and John Dawson. One Church, Many Tribes. Minneapolis: Chosen Books, 2000.
DANIEL BERRIGAN
Berrigan, Daniel. Essential Writings. Edited by John Dear. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2009.
———. Isaiah: Spirit of Courage, Gift of Tears. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.
Forest, Jim. At Play in the Lion’s Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017.
Farren, Suzy. A Call to Care: The Women Who Built Catholic Healthcare in America. St. Louis: Catholic Health Association of the United States, 1996.
Simpson, Mary Stella. Sister Stella’s Babies: Days in the Practice of a Nurse-Midwife. New York: American Journal of Nursing, 1978.
Ward, Thomas, Jr. Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.