Lloyd McCarthy

Truscello, M., And Nangwaya, A (eds). Why don't the poor rise up? Organizing the twenty-first century resistance. Chico: AK Press, 2017. 277pp. ISBN 978184935278-9 paper.

On August 9, 2014 the police shooting of unarmed and submitting Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American college bound teenager in Ferguson , Missouri, sparked an unrest which drew national and international attention.

The African American community in which Carmichael entered the fray for civil rights in the 1960s was not comprised of a uniform social class.