What Did You Read This Summer?

 

 



Every summer, my strategy is to choose a "main topic/ theme" to focus on for my self-imposed "Reading Challenge"...

In the past several summers, I have chosen some of the following themes:

• "Unknown" Stories of the Civil War
• The History of the Transcontinental Railroad
• The Importance of Grassroots Radicals in the Civil Rights Movement
• North American Native Americans (especially Cahokia)
• The Influence of J. Edgar Hoover on American History

This summer, I chose to focus primarily on Civil Rights...especially Mexican-American History as it relates to Civil Rights and Social Justice. Here are the books I read in the order I read them...

June

On The Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail (2008)- 388 pages
Poems: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, vol. 3 (1951-1967)- 352 pages
The Bystander: JFK and the Struggle for Black Equality (2006)- 576 pages

July

Mexican-Americans 1930-1960: Leadership,Ideology, & Identity (1990)- 376 pages
A Dolores Huerta Reader (2008)- 380 pages

August

Blowout! Sal Castro & The Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice (2011)- 384 pages
This Non-Violent Stuff'll Get You Killed! (2014)- 320 pages

Currently Reading

Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South (2011)- 688 pages

I hope you had a great summer of reading...writing...thinking...and dreaming!