Title: Baptized in Tear Gas
Description: 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.
Subjects: Protest movements, History, Civil rights workers, Biography, Police shootings, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, African Americans, Violence against, Anti-racism, Clergy, Change (Psychology), Religious aspects, Political and social views, Race relations