Research Catalog

Title

They can't kill us all : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement / Wesley Lowery.

Author

Lowery, Wesley, 1990-

Publication

• New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

248 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• A behind-the-scenes account of the #blacklivesmatter movement shares insights into the young men and women behind it, citing the racially charged controversies that have motivated members and the economic, political, and personal histories that inform its purpose.
• "A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it. Conducting hundreds of interviews over the course of more than one year of reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland, and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the response to Michael Brown's death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Brown's family and the families of other victims as well as local activists. By posing the question "What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation?" Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and too few jobs. Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, They Can't Kill us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black community's long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination. They Can't Kill us All grapples with a persistent if largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans most in need of both."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

They cannot kill us all

Subjects

• Police shootings
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Police shootings > United States
• 2000-2099
• United States
• Black lives matter movement
• Racial profiling in law enforcement > United States
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Race discrimination > United States
• African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century
• Police misconduct > United States
• Racism > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.

Contents

The story -- Ferguson : a city holds its breath -- Cleveland : coming home -- North Charleston : caught on camera -- Baltimore : life pre-indictment -- Charleston : Black death is Black death -- Ferguson, again : a year later, the protests continue -- Three days in July.

Call Number

Sc E 16-1933

ISBN

• 9780316312479
• 0316312479

LCCN

2016948558

OCLC

944933782

Author

Lowery, Wesley, 1990- author.

Title

They can't kill us all : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement / Wesley Lowery.

Publisher

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-1933

JFE 17-6187