THE DREAM AND THE REASON
From Harlem to Black Lives Matter
- Category: Politics
- Author/Editor: Daniele Biacchessi
- Format: Essay/Paperback
- Dimension: 15 cms x 23 cms
- Pages: 192
- Price: 20 €
- Year: 2021
Review
The dream of the African American community of wanting to free itself from the chains of racism, discrimination, repression and violence of the state apparatus. The reason put into play in the course of history by a substantial part of the black and white American people, through protest. From the first racial conflict of 1935 in Harlem to the Philadelphia uprising of 1964, to the Watts events of 1965, to the Detroit uprising of 1967, to the marches of Martin Luther King and the civil war following his killing, up to the riots of the Kitty Hawk in 1972, in Miami in 1980, in Los Angeles in 1992 and the great demonstrations of the Black Lives Matter movement, in America and around the world, following the killing of George Floyd. A century of history of protest movements fighting for civil rights and their influence on the changes in the structures of American politics