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About This Book
On February 26th 2012 seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with a bag of Skittles and a can of juice when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighbourhood watchman ended his young life. In a matter of weeks, Trayvon Martin's name would be spoken by President Obama, honored by professional athletes, and passionately discussed all over traditional and social media. Trayvon's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, driven by their intense love for their lost son, launched a nationwide campaign for justice that would change the USA and the world.
Five years after his tragic death, Travyon Martin has become a symbol of social justice activism, as has his hauntingly familiar image: the photo of a young man, wearing his favourite hoodie and gazing silently at the camera. But who was Trayvon Martin, before he became an icon? And how did one black child's death become the match that lit a civil rights movement?
Rest in Power, told through the compelling alternating narratives of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, answers those questions from the most intimate of sources. It's the story of the beautiful and complex child they lost, the cruel unresponsiveness of the police and the hostility of the legal system, and the inspiring journey they took from grief and pain to power, and from tragedy and senselessness to meaning.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Sybrina Fulton
- 1. Sybrina: Our Lives Before
- 2. Tracy: February 26, 2012–February 27, 2012
- 3. Sybrina: February 27, 2012
- 4. Tracy: February 27, 2012–March 8, 2012
- 5. Sybrina: February 27, 2012–March 8, 2012
- 6. Tracy: February 29, 2012–March 9, 2012
- 7. Sybrina: March 9, 2012–March 16, 2012
- 8. Tracy: March 16, 2012–March 21, 2012
- 9. Sybrina: March 22, 2012–March 26, 2012
- 10. Tracy: March 27, 2012–July 6, 2012
- 11. Sybrina: March 12, 2013–July 27, 2013
- 12. Tracy: June 28, 2013–July 10, 2013
- 13. Sybrina: July 12, 2013
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors