We Cry Justice - Reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign grieving ISBN: 9781312524507

ISBN: 9781312524507

Winner of the 2019 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award

Hill and Robinson’s remarkably effective campaign against various forms of racial segregation can inspire a new generation to embrace educational opportunity as the birthright of every American child

Jay Marshall presents the rich tradition of Quaker spirituality in the vernacular of the twenty-first century with personal narratives from his own faith journey

Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants

We Cry Justice - Reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign grieving ISBN: 9781312524507We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible proclaims justice and abundance for the poor. Yet these powerful passages about poverty are frequently overlooked and misinterpreted. Enter the Poor People's Campaign, a movement against racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and religious nationalism. In We Cry Justice, Liz Theoharis, co chair of the campaign, is joined by pastors,