The Summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement

by Andre E. Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar

In the wake of George Floyd's murder in May 2020, protests broke out in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the United States. National unrest led to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and added to calls for justice in other American cities, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Tulsa, and Louisville, Kentucky, where only months earlier, Breonna Taylor was killed by police. By some estimates, BLM protesters numbered between fifteen million...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496849752
• ISBN13: 9781496849755
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"