Title: Why Black Lives Matter
Subtitle: A Socio-Historical Contextualization of the Lives of Blacks In America, 1857-2023
Subject Classification:  Race and Racism, History, Equality Diversity Inclusion  
BIC Classification: HB, JPVH1, JFSL
BISAC Classification: SOC070000, HIS056000, SOC001000
Binding: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Publication date: 13 Mar 2024
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-572-6
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-573-3
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80441-574-0

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Description

The book traces, in three parts, the roots and history of the Black Lives Matter movement, covering the Abolitionist Movement in the 19th Century; the Civil Rights Movement through the 20th Century, and the Black Lives Matter Movement in the 21st Century. It traces the stories of African Americans' lives through landmark rulings such as Dred Scott v. Sandford and Plessy v. Ferguson, to social status changes through the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, racial segregation, lynchings, incarceration and police brutality, and through to the more recent, notorious cases of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd. It also sets out how this history has given a moral authority to, and legitimized the usage of, the phrase “Black Lives Matter”.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr. Blanchard Onanga is a former diplomat, an Assistant Professor at Omar Bongo University in Gabon; and an Instructor at Rivermont Collegiate, Bettendorf, Iowa, USA.

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