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Publisher
Verso Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Since the 1980s, successive British governments, from Thatcher to Johnson, covertly plotted to suppress protest, using standardised aggressive tactics - from batons to horse charges to kettling. Through undisclosed documents and eyewitness accounts; the authors reveal organised police violence against miners at Orgreave, print workers at Warrington, anti-poll tax campaigners, student protestors, and Black Lives Matter activists"--
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Bestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice in America "This is the time. We won't stop until we change the whole system of justice."--Rev. Al Sharpton While the world may know the major names of the Civil Rights movement, there are countless lesser-known heroes fighting the good fight to advance...
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