Virginia Festival of the Book Presents: Protest and the Story of America

Three different books serve as a macrocosm and microcosms of resistance. Charlottesville: An American Story by Pulitzer Prize winning finalist Deborah Baker looks to 2017, when clergy, activists, and people from all walks of life reacted to the threat of armed white supremacists descending upon their city. In A Protest History of the United States, Gloria J. Browne-Marshall looks at 500 years of protest, covering civil rights advocacy, anti-war protests, and labor uprisings. Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance by Denali Sai Nalamalapu hones in on six Appalachian activists fighting the Mountain Valley pipeline. How do personal stories mesh with the greater picture of protest? And how has this larger history of everyday people standing up shaped America?