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Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist

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Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist - Dowd, Elle, and Blackmon, Traci D (Foreword by)
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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 ...

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Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist 2021, Broadleaf Books, Minneapolis

ISBN-13: 9781506470429

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