Police Against the Movement
the sabotage of the civil rights struggle and the activists who fought back
$46.98
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2026
Summary
Police Against the Movement: Unmasking the Hidden Battle for Civil Rights
A 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, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691238838 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691238839 |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America |
| Author: | Joshua Clark Davis |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Joshua Clark Davis
Joshua Clark Davis is associate professor of history at the University of Baltimore. He is the author of From Head Shops to Whole Foods and the coeditor of Baltimore Revisited, and he has written for The Nation, Slate, Jacobin, and The Atlantic.
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