Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author of "A Protest History of the United States, opens a new window," is an award-winning writer, legal scholar and commentator, civil rights advocate and professor of constitutional law and Africana studies at John Jay College (CUNY). She has litigated cases for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Southern Poverty Law Center and Community Legal Services. A frequent commentator on CNN, NPR and MSNBC, Browne-Marshall has received numerous accolades, including the 2024 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award.

Reading Recommendations by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall.

Here are Gloria's top reads for CPL patrons to check out:

"Let Us Descend" by Jesmyn Ward is a story of rebirth and reclamation. Like Gloria, Jesmyn Ward also writes about intergenerational conflicts.

"Love in the Time of Cholera," by Gabriel García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love.   

"The Third Life of Grange Copeland" by Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple," writes about a black tenant farmer who leaves his wife and son in Georgia to head North and returns years later to find his son imprisoned for the murder of his wife.

"Their Eyes Were Watching God" was first published in 1937 and is Zora Neale Hurston's most highly acclaimed novel. Her work is based on literature but also research.

"Anton Chekhov's Short Stories" provides an adventure in each chapter.

Books by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

"A Protest History of the United States" is an exploration of 400 years of protest and resistance in U.S. history.

"The Voting Rights War" tells the story of the ongoing struggle to achieve voting equality through 100 years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court.