Trayvon Martin Killing (26 Feb. 2012)
Dream Defenders
Occupy Florida State House (July 2013)
BLM (July 2013)
http://blacklivesmatter.com
Michael Brown Killing (9 Aug. 2014)
M4BL (2014)
https://m4bl.org/
“Black humanity and dignity requires Black political will and power. Despite constant exploitation and perpetual oppression, Black people have bravely and brilliantly been the driving force pushing the U.S. towards the ideals it articulates but has never achieved.”
13th (2016)
Full feature documentary by director Ava DuVernay traces the struggle for Black Lives from slavery, through convict labor, Klan terror, Jim Crow segregation, into the politics of building a prison industrial complex that came to entangle the life of one out of three Black men in the U.S. Released to YouTube in 2020.
Death of Freddie Gray (Apr. 2015)
George Floyd Murder (25 May 2020)
Justin Howell Shooting (31 May 2020)
“Defund the Police” (4 Jun. 2020)
Tracking Racial Justice Protests
CountLove
https://countlove.org/blog/racial-justice-protests.html
ACLED
Frank Leon Roberts 5-year Report (ACLU)
https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-criminal-justice/how-black-lives-matter-changed-way-americans-fight
“BLM will forever be remembered as the movement responsible for popularizing what has now become an indispensable tool in 21st-century organizing efforts: the phenomenon that scholars refer to as “mediated mobilization.” By using the tools of social media, BLM was the first U.S. social movement in history to successfully use the internet as a mass mobilization device. The recent successes of movements, such as #MeToo, #NeverAgain, and #TimesUp, would be inconceivable had it not been for the groundwork that #BlackLivesMatter laid.”
Library Resources
Lebron, Christopher J.. The Making of Black Lives Matter : A Brief History of an Idea, Oxford University Press USA – OSO, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central.
–A historical review of the struggle for black lives since the Frederick Douglass speech on 4 July 1852.
Ransby, Barbara. Making All Black Lives Matter : Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century. University of California Press, 2018. EBSCOhost Ebook.
–An engaged history of a movement with chapters on Trayvon, Baltimore, and Ferguson.
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