The Color of Compromise
by Dr. Jemar Tisby

Below is a suggested reading schedule for this book club. You can find Dr. Tisby’s book wherever books are sold. (It is also linked on our Resources page.) If you choose to follow the schedule, you will finish in time for our Book Discussions in June. This schedule will also be emailed to you. If you do not get an email confirmation, be sure you check your spam folder.:

May 1: Foreward by Lecrae
May 4: Chapter 1 – The Color of Compromise
May 6: Chapter 2 – Making Race in the Colonial Era
May 8: Chapter 3 – Understanding Liberty in the Age of Revolution and Revival
May 11: Chapter 4 – Insitutionalizing Race in the Antebellum Era
May 13: Chapter 5 – Defending Slavery at the Onset of the Civil War
May 15: Chapter 6 – Reconstructing White Supremacy in the Jim Crow Era
May 18: Chapter 7 – Remembering the Complicity in the North
May 20: Chapter 8 – Compromising with Racism during the Civil Rights Movement
May 22: Chapter 9 – Organizing the Religious Right at the End of the Twentieth Century
May 25: Chapter 10 – Reconsidering Racial Reconciliation in the Age of Black Lives Matter
May 27: Chapter 11 – The Fierce Urgency of Now
May 29: Conclusion – Be Strong and Courageous

Book Discussions (come to one, both, or neither):
Tuesdays, June 2 at 7:00pm CT
Wednesday, June 3 at 11:30am CT

Author Meet: June 10, 7:00pm

Zoom Links will be emailed the week prior to each event.