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Moore, Wes, 1978-
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Gray, Freddie, 1989-2015.
Baltimore Riots, Baltimore, Md., 2015.
Police brutality -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Blacks -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions.
Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations.
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Moore, Wes, 1978-
Gray, Freddie, 1989-2015.
Baltimore Riots, Baltimore, Md., 2015.
Police brutality -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
Blacks -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions.
Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations.
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Five days : the fiery reckoning of an American city / Wes Moore with Erica L. Green.
by
Moore, Wes, 1978-
One World, 2020.
Call #:
363.32 M825f
Subjects
Gray, Freddie, 1989-2015.
Baltimore
Riots,
Baltimore
, Md., 2015.
Police
brutality
--
Maryland
--
Baltimore
.
Blacks
--
Maryland
--
Baltimore
--
Social conditions.
Baltimore
(Md.)
--
Race relations.
ISBN:
9780525512363 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxiii, 285 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as
police
loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the
police
van, Gray was in a coma he would never recover from. In the wake of a long history of
police
abuse in
Baltimore
, this killing felt like a final straw
--
it led to a week of protests and then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge, and caught the nation's attention. Wes Moore is one of
Baltimore
's most famous sons
--
a Rhodes Scholar, bestselling author, decorated combat veteran, White House fellow, and current President of the Robin Hood Foundation. While attending Gray's funeral, he saw every strata of the city come together: grieving mothers; members of the city's wealthy elite; activists; and the long-suffering citizens of
Baltimore
--
all looking to comfort each other, but also looking for answers. Knowing that when they left the church, these factions would spread out to their own corners, but that the answers they were all looking for could only be found in the city as a whole, Moore
--
along with Pulitzer-winning coauthor Erica Green
--
tells the story of the
Baltimore
uprising. Through both his own observations, and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans: Partee, a conflicted black captain of the
Baltimore
Police
Department; Jenny, a young white public defender who's drawn into the violent center of the uprising herself; Tawanda, a young black woman who'd spent a lonely year protesting the killing of her own brother by
police
; and John DeAngelo, scion of the city's most powerful family and owner of the
Baltimore
Orioles, who has to make choices of conscience he'd never before confronted. Each shifting point of view contributes to an engrossing, cacophonous account of one of the most consequential moments in our recent history--but also an essential cri de coeur about the deeper causes of the violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath."--From publisher.
Other authors:
Green, Erica L.
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