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• Gideon's Gang: A Case Study of the Church in Social Action (Philadelphia: United Church Press, 1974), by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles F. Longino (HTML at Virginia)

• White Hats: People Who are Trying to Make a Difference, ed. by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (HTML at Wayback Machine)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship (c2008), ed. by Charles R. Hale (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)
• The Active Society: A Theory of Societal and Political Processes (New York: The Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, c1968), by Amitai Etzioni (PDF with commentary at gwu.edu)
• Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2010), by Susan Bulkeley Butler, contrib. by Bob Keefe (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way (c2006), by Hillary Rettig (Javascript-dependent HTML with commentary at lifelongactivist.com)
• Lobbying the Autocrat: The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Max Grömping and Jessica C. Teets (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Eternal Dissident: Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act (Oakland: University of California Press, c2018), by Leonard I. Beerman, ed. by David N. Myers (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• Rethinking Social Action through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín's Music Schools (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Geoffrey Baker (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns (2009), by War Resisters' International (HTML and PDF at wri-irg.org)

• Ecology Begins at Home: Using the Power of Choice (2008 and 1989 editions), by Archie Duncanson (PDF files with commentary at alternativ.nu)

• Settlement Houses and the Great Depression (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975), by Judith Ann Trolander (page images at Cornell)
• Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color (Berkeley and Los Angeles: BerkeleyLaw, c2010), ed. by Christopher F. Edley and Jorge Ruiz-de-Velasco (PDF with commentary at escholarship.org)

• Y2K Citizen's Action Guide (1998), ed. by Eric Utne
  • HTML at Wayback Machine
  • HTML at utne.com

• Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (c2008), by Elenore Long (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Estimating the Effects of Social Interventions (1981), by Charles M. Judd and David A. Kenny (PDF at davidakenny.net)
• Violence in Families: Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs, ed. by Rosemary A. Chalk and Patricia A. King (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Rand Statewide CalWORKs Evaluation: An Overview, by Jacob A. Klerman, Elaine Reardon, and Paul S. Steinberg (PDF at rand.org)
• Welfare Reform in California: Results of the 1998 All-County Implementation Survey, by Patricia A. Ebener and Jacob Alex Klerman (PDF files at rand.org)

• Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2016), ed. by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (PDF at OAPEN)

• Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), ed. by David Chandler and Christian Fuchs (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• #Hashtagactivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution (New Brunswick, NJ, et al: Rutgers University Press, c2013), by Niki Akhavan
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in Times of Financial Crisis (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, c2013), ed. by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Geoff Cox (PDF with commentary at data-browser.net)
• Mobilizing Pedagogy: Two Social Practice Projects in the Americas (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2018), ed. by Elyse A. Gonzales and Sara Reisman, contrib. by Pablo Helguera, Suzanne Lacy, and Pilar Riaño Alcalá (PDF with commentary at Amherst (providing personal information is optional))

• Agitate! (2019-) (full serial archives)

• Delusion and Mass-Delusion (New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs, 1949), by Joost Meerloo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Crowds: A Moving-Picture of Democracy (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1913), by Gerald Stanley Lee
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Beyond Control: A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd-Police Relations (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Shirley Paré (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• Managing Major Events: Best Practices From the Field (2011), by Police Executive Research Forum (PDF at policeforum.org)

• China's Far West, Conditions in Xinjiang One Year After Demonstrations and Riots: Roundtable Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, July 19, 2010 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China
  • PDF and text at ccec.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Civil Liberties and Social Order: Consultation Document (1997), by Hong Kong (China) Chief Executive's Office (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Crossing the Line: Georgia's Violent Dispersal of Protestors and Raid on Imedi Television (New York: Human Rights Watch, c2007), by Jane Buchanan (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Burntollet (London: L.R.S. Publishers, 1969), by Bowes Egan and Vincent McCormack (illustrated HTML at CAIN)

• Report of the Tribunal Appointed to Inquire into the Events on Sunday, 30th January 1972 (London: HMSO, 1972), by Lord Widgery (HTML at CAIN)

• Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (10 volumes; 2010), by Mark Oliver Saville, William Hoyt, and John Toohey (illustrated HTML with commentary at bloody-sunday-inquiry.org)

• Bloody Sunday: Submission to the United Nations' Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitary Executions: The Murder of 13 Civilians by Soldiers of the British Army on 'Bloody Sunday', 30th January 1972 (1994), by British Irish Rights Watch (HTML at CAIN)
• Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (10 volumes; 2010), by Mark Oliver Saville, William Hoyt, and John Toohey (illustrated HTML with commentary at bloody-sunday-inquiry.org)
• Report of the Tribunal Appointed to Inquire into the Events on Sunday, 30th January 1972 (London: HMSO, 1972), by Lord Widgery (HTML at CAIN)
• The Bloody Sunday Tribunal of Inquiry: A Resounding Defeat for Truth, Justice and the Rule of Law, by Dermot Walsh (HTML at CAIN)

• The Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest (1970; some Kent State photographs omitted in this online edition), by United States President's Commission on Campus Unrest (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)

• Black Spring, by Elod Kincses (HTML at Corvinus Library)

• In Quest of Freedom (Dallas: Royal Pub. Co., c1963), by Virgil C. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sit Ins: The Students Report (New York: Congress of Racial Equality, 1960), ed. by James Peck
  • PDF at crmvet.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• In Quest of Freedom (Dallas: Royal Pub. Co., c1963), by Virgil C. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story (ca. 1957), by Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) (PDF at crmvet.org)

• Albany (typescript special report; Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1962), by Howard Zinn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christian Ethics and the Sit-In (New York: Association Press, c1961), by Paul Ramsey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2012), by Mohan J. Dutta (PDF files with commentary at Purdue)

• Diverting Children from a Life of Crime: Measuring Costs and Benefits, by Peter W. Greenwood, Karyn E. Model, C. Peter Rydell, and James Chiesa (PDF files at rand.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.