Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

20 reviews

vrybs's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Violence

laurareads87's review

challenging emotional inspiring medium-paced

5.0

A worthy conclusion to an excellent trilogy.  This third volume focuses on Selma and the struggle for voting rights, and delves into the complexities of the relationships between different individuals and groups within the civil rights movement.  This is far from my first book on this topic, but I still learned a lot.  5 stars for all three installments - highly recommend.

<i>Content warnings:</i> racism, racial slurs, sexism, violence, assault, murder, police brutality, hate crimes, gun violence, murder of children, grief

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Hate crime, Child death, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Gun violence, Death, Grief, and Murder

swimmingwolf59's review

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

This series is a really good, really intimate look into a portion of the 60s civil rights movement. I really enjoyed this book especially, it's just, like in the other two, the organization of it sometimes felt a little strange, like they would mention something and then never elaborate on it, or the pictures wouldn't quite match what they were talking about. But overall it's a very good series, and I would recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs

shawnapantzke's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Police brutality

ukponge's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, and Blood

leweylibrary's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Again, hard to review individually when I read all three together, but this one is probably my favorite. I can definitely see how it won a National Book Award. Of course this was the culmination of all three books and the march from Selma to Washington, but there were just some parts that hit extra hard emotionally and mentally that I loved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Death, Police brutality, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, and Cursing

readingbrb's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, and Violence

puggreader's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Cursing, Death of parent, Hate crime, Gore, Blood, Death, Grief, and Gun violence

tangleroot_eli's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

(Review of all 3 volumes) These aren't easy books to read, but they're important. Perhaps envisioned as a snapshot of where racism stood in the 40s-60s and how far we've come, right now the series reads like a blueprint for what US citizens of conscience will need to do as the government erodes civil rights for people of pretty much every identity and police and private violence continues to run rampant (and seems to increase every day).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Child death, Racial slurs, Murder, and Police brutality

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Medical content

thesaltiestlibrarian's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Stalking, Torture, Grief, Hate crime, Blood, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Murder