Thread by @elizabhinton

“We’re never going to get out of this until we understand how we got here.” Thank you, @jennyschuessler @nytimesarts nytimes.com/2021/05/12/art… @LiverightPub

I am most honored that the article highlighted the groundbreaking work @engagedscholar is doing through his Radical Information Project @UMich. Christian gave me access to the Lemberg Center archives, one of the key primary source bases I used in the book radicalinformationproject.weebly.com

Thanks to @engagedscholar and my RA @benj_schafer, I was able to include a 25-page “Timeline of Black Rebellions” from 1964-2001 in the book. It shows just how prevalent rebellions were, especially from 1968-1972, a largely forgotten period. I bet your hometown is in here

Look how rebellion escalates during the early deployment of the War on Crime, *after* the enactment of the Safe Streets Act of 1968–
1964: 4 Rebellions. 1975: 4. 1966: 17. 1967: 75. 1968: 504. 1969: 613. 1970: 632. 1971: 319. 1972: 71. We’ve missed the peak years... until now

I hope this data can serve as a gift to fellow historians—there is a story and a struggle behind every city listed. Even more I hope it opens up reckonings and meaningful change in communities shaped by the cycle of police violence and Black rebellion from the 60s to our own time