Introduction
1. Roots and Recalibrated Expectations: Prologue to a Movement
2. Justice for Trayvon: The Spark
3. The Ferguson Uprising and Its Reverberations
4. Black Rage and Blacks in Power: Baltimore and Electoral
Politics
5. Themes, Dilemmas, and Challenges
6. Backlash and a Price
7. A View from the Local: Chicago’s Fighting Spirit
8. Political Quilters and Maroon Spaces
Conclusion
Epilogue: A Personal Reflection
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Key Figures
Selected Bibliography
Barbara Ransby is a historian, author and longtime activist. She is author of the acclaimed biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement. Barbara was one of the founders of African American Women in Defense of Ourselves in 1991 and the Black Radical Congress in 1998. She is Editor of the journal, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and Professor and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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