It is finally beginning to feel like summer in Massachusetts. Reflecting on our multi-issue approach to civil rights and civil liberties, and our love of good beach reads, ACLU of Massachusetts staff pulled together a collection of must-read books for your summer reading list.
- How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good by Steve Phillips
- Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick
- Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable by Joanna Schwartz
- How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights by Erwin Chemerinsky
- Civil Rights Queen by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann
- Elite Capture How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
- Renegade for Justice by Stephen Saltonstall
- The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
- Better Without AI by David Chapman
- Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education by Jessica Lander
- The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster
- Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts
- All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Do you have suggestions for next year's list? Contact development@aclum.org.