{"product_id":"police-against-the-movement-joshua-clark-davis-9780691238838","title":"Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence--and a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolice Against the Movement\u003c\/i\u003e shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it. Instead, as Joshua Clark Davis shows, activists from the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee confronted police abuses head-on, staging sit-ins at precinct stations, picketing outside department headquarters, and blocking traffic to protest officer misdeeds. In return, organizers found themselves the targets of overwhelming political repression in the form of pervasive police surveillance, infiltration by undercover officers, and retaliatory prosecutions aimed at discrediting and derailing their movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe history of the civil rights era abounds with accounts of physical brutality by county sheriffs and tales of political intrigue and constitutional violations by FBI agents. Turning our attention to municipal officials in both the North and South, Davis reveals how local police bombarded civil rights organizers with an array of insidious weapons. More than just physical violence, these economic, legal, and reputational attacks were designed to project the illusion of color-blind law enforcement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe civil rights struggle against police abuses is largely overlooked today, the victim of a willful campaign by local law enforcement to erase their record of repression. By placing activism against state violence at the center of the civil rights story, \u003ci\u003ePolice Against the Movement\u003c\/i\u003e offers insight into political resistance in the face of government attacks on protest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Clark Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691238839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691238838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Joshua Clark Davis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838456418559,"sku":"9780691238838","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca341bcf-ca85-4bd2-b5ca-6303761b88f1.jpg?v=1746589890","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/police-against-the-movement-joshua-clark-davis-9780691238838","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}