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

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Label

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

Title remainder

Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement

Statement of responsibility

Wesley Lowery

Title variation

They cannot kill us all

Creator

• Lowery, Wesley, 1990-

Author

• Lowery, Wesley, 1990-

Subject

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

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

305.896/073

Index

index present

LC call number

• E185.86
• HV7936.R3

LC item number

• .L69 2016
• .L69 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult