When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives Matter memoir

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Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the prejudice and persecution Black Americans endure at the hands of law enforcement. For Patrisse, the most vulnerable people in the country are Black people. Deliberately and ruthlessly targeted by a criminal justice system serving a white privilege agenda, Black people are subjected to unjustifiable racial profiling and police brutality. In 2013, when Trayvon Martin's killer went free, Patrisse's outrage led her to co-found Black Lives Matter with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin. Championing human rights in the face of violent racism, Patrisse is a survivor. She transformed her personal pain into political power, giving voice to a people suffering inequality and a movement fueled by her strength and love, to tell the country -- and the world -- that Black Lives Matter.

subjects: Black lives matter movement,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists,  African American women,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies,  Biography,  African American women political activists,  Civil rights, united states,  Political activists,  African americans, biography,  Social movements,  African americans, politics and government,  Women, united states, biography,  nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2018-02-04,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  United states, history,  African American women poitical activists,  Khan-cullors, patrisse , 1984-,  Garza, alicia , 1981-,  Tometi, opal,  African american women political activists--biography,  African american women--biography,  Political science--civil rights,  Social science--discrimination & race relations,  Social science--ethnic studies--african american studies,  E185.97.k43 a3 2018,  323.092 b,  305.896/0973,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Civil Rights,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Discrimination & Race Relations,  Ethnic Studies,  African American Studies