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Politics and Society in Modern America Ser.: Police Against the Movement : The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691238839
ISBN-139780691238838
eBay Product ID (ePID)21073932111
Product Key Features
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePolice Against the Movement : The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
SubjectCivil Rights, Law Enforcement, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2025
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
AuthorJoshua Clark Davis
SeriesPolitics and Society in Modern America Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Reviews" Police Against the Movement is a stark and horrifying look at the range of police abuses and the ways dissent continues to be suppressed. It's an important book." ---Eleanor J. Bader, The Progressive
SynopsisA bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence--and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later Police Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, as Joshua Clark Davis shows, activists from the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee confronted police abuses head-on, staging sit-ins at precinct stations, picketing outside department headquarters, and blocking city streets to protest officer misdeeds. In return, organizers found themselves the targets of overwhelming political repression in the form of police surveillance, infiltration by undercover officers, and retaliatory prosecutions aimed at discrediting and derailing their movement. The history of the civil rights era abounds with accounts of physical brutality by county sheriffs and tales of political intrigue and constitutional violations by FBI agents. Turning our attention to municipal officials in cities and towns across the US--North, South, East, and West--Davis reveals how local police bombarded civil rights organizers with an array of insidious weapons. More than just physical violence, these economic, legal, and reputational attacks were designed to project the illusion of color-blind law enforcement. The civil rights struggle against police abuses is largely overlooked today, the victim of a willful campaign by local law enforcement to erase their record of repression. By placing activism against state violence at the center of the civil rights story, Police Against the Movement offers critical insight into the power of political resistance in the face of government attacks on protest.
