{"product_id":"the-third-reconstruction-moral-mondays-fusion-politics-and-the-rise-of-a-new-justice-movement","title":"The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays  Fusion Politics  and the Rise of a New Justice Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eA modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge Americas racial divide.  Over the summer of 2013  the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions to voting access and an extreme makeover of state government. These proteststhe largest state governmentfocused civil disobedience campaign in American historycame to be known as Moral Mondays and have since blossomed in states as diverse as Florida  Tennessee  Wisconsin  Ohio  and New York.  At a time when divide-and-conquer politics are exacerbating racial strife and economic inequality  Rev. Barber offers an impassioned  historically grounded argument that Moral Mondays are hard evidence of an embryonic Third Reconstruction in America.  The first Reconstruction briefly flourished after Emancipation  and the second Reconstruction ushered in meaningful progress in the civil rights era. But both were met by ferocious reactionary measures that severely curtailed  and in many cases rolled back  racial and economic progress. This Third Reconstruction is a profoundly moral awakening of justice-loving people united in a fusion coalition powerful enough to reclaim the possibility of democracyeven in the face of corporate-financed extremism.  In this memoir of how Rev. Barber and allies as diverse as progressive Christians  union members  and immigration-rights activists came together to build a coalition  he offers a trenchant analysis of race-based inequality and a hopeful message for a nation grappling with persistent racial and economic injustice. Rev. Barber writes movinglyand pragmaticallyabout how he laid the groundwork for a state-by-state movement that unites black  white  and brown  rich and poor  employed and unemployed  gay and straight  documented and undocumented  religious and secular. Only such a diverse fusion movement  Rev. Barber argues  can heal our nations wounds and produce public policy that is morally defensible  constitutionally consistent  and economically sane. The Third Reconstruction is both a blueprint for movement building and an inspiring call to action from the twenty-first centurys most effective grassroots organizer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964371791925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807083607","price":27.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807083604.jpg?v=1770458743","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-third-reconstruction-moral-mondays-fusion-politics-and-the-rise-of-a-new-justice-movement","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}