TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dowd,Elle
AU  - Blackmon,Traci D.
TI  - Baptized in tear gas: from white moderate to abolitionist 
SN  - 1506470424
U1  - 323.092 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Minneapollis
PB  - Broadleaf Books
KW  - Dowd, Elle
KW  - Police shootings
KW  - Missouri
KW  - Ferguson
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - United States
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Violence against
KW  - Anti-racism
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Change (Psychology)
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Race relations
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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