Civil Rights
Volume 37, Number 3
March-April 2016
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Beverly C. Tomek’s Introduction to Focus: Civil Rights Today
Robert Greene II’s “Campus Protests”
Stefan M. Bradley’s “The Rise of #blacklivesmatter”
Marcia Chatelain’s “Making a Movement”
Clifford Thompson reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
LuGuana Gray reviews Victoria Christopher Murry’s Stand Your Ground
Katrina Thompson reviews Tim Suereth’s Ferguson: America’s Breaking Point
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
