They can't kill us all : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a new era in America's racial justice movement
Book |
First edition. |
Little, Brown and Company,
New York :
2016.
- 3 of 3 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
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- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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About
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 during the course of over one year 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 repose 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 other victims' families 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 ... --
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Details
- ISBN: 9780316312479 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 248 pages ; 25 cmprint
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.