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Dowd, Elle,

Baptized in tear gas : from white moderate to abolitionist / Elle Dowd ; foreword by Reverend Traci D. Blackmon. - xxiv, 158 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Pulling back the veil -- Releasing control -- Tension -- The stakes -- Endurance as resistance -- Community care as resistance -- Joy as resistance -- The cost -- Transformation.

For years Elle Dowd considered herself an advocate for justice, but her well-meaning support always took a back burner to what Martin Luther King Jr. called the tension-free, ordered ""negative peace"" of white moderates. Then Michael Brown, a Black man, was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the subsequent Uprising changed everything. In Baptized in Tear Gas, minister and activist Elle Dowd tells the gripping story of her transformation into an Assata Shakur-reading, courthouse-occupying abolitionist with an arrest record, hungry for the revolution.

ISBN: 1506470424 9781506470429

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC1C5660 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020280772 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Dowd, Elle--Political and social views.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Police shootings--Missouri--Ferguson.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Missouri--Ferguson.
Protest movements--United States--21st century.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
African Americans--Violence against.
Anti-racism--United States--21st century.
Clergy--United States--Biography.
Change (Psychology)--Religious aspects.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Race relations--21st century.

Dewey Class. No.: 323.092