Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter Grassroots Movement to Global Phenomenon - Being Black in America

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Publisher's Synopsis

"Black Lives Matter was founded by activists Cullors, Alicia Garz, and Opal Tometi in 2013 as a hashtag meant to draw attention to the police brutality and racially motivated violence perpetrated against Black people. The group rose to prominence the following year when authorities in Ferguson, Missouri shot a young Black man, Michael Brown, as he walked down the street. Since that time the decentralized movement, which emphasizes local organizing, has been a driving force in thousands of nonviolent civil disobedience protests again systemic racism"--.

Book information

ISBN: 9781678200244
Publisher: ReferencePoint Press
Imprint: ReferencePoint Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 323.1196073
DEWEY edition: 23
Weight: 295g
Height: 221mm
Width: 168mm
Spine width: 10mm