If We Don't Get It : A People's History

The New Press

If We Don't Get ItA People's History of Ferguson\nAuthor(s): Stefan M. Bradley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The New Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: The New Press\nISBN-13: 9781620979051, 978-1620979051\nSynopsis\nAt a time of renewed activism, the story of the young people who bravely turned a local issue into a national movement for justice, from a professor of Black studies at Amherst who participated in the Ferguson uprising\n\nStefan M. Bradley was a young professor in Saint Louis University when Black teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri, by a local white police officer. Bradley quickly became a key media activist during the protests that ensued, giving on-the-ground interviews to Chris Hayes, CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC, and others.\n\nIn If We Dont Get It, Bradley, now a named professor of Black studies at Amherst College, shows how Browns murder sparked a grassroots movement for democracy, led by Black youth, which transformed the way we talk about r.