Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City

by LaShawn Harris

The life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever--and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality

#SayHerName: The story of Eleanor Bumpurs, told for the first time by decorated historian and Bumpurs's former neighbor LaShawn Harris

On October 29, 1984, 66-year-old beloved Black disabled grandmother Eleanor Bumpurs was murdered in her own home. A public housing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807011967
• ISBN13: 9780807011966
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.