ALT Blue Power blurb from Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "BLUE POWER IS A TOUR DE FORCE. BEAUTIFULLY RESEARCHED AND WRITTEN, THIS BOOK SHOWS HOW POLICE OFFICERS TRANSFORMED WHINING ABOUT RESPECT INTO WIELDING POLITICAL CLOUT."

ALT Cover of Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, with blue and red letters and police walking away from viewer in formation

ALT Please join us as we help launch Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis in conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika, Thursday November 6th. 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, activists confronted police abuses head-on, staging sit-ins at precinct stations, picketing department headquarters, and blocking traffic 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 derailing their movement.

ALT Cover of Police Against the Movement with waves and sand in background

ALT Protesters and police face each other during a rally for George Floyd in Minneapolis on Tuesday, May 26, 2020