The Making of Black Lives Matter

Incredibly informative, chronicling the struggle of African Americans to claim basic civil rights from Frederick Douglass and Ida Wells through the Harlem Renaissance to Martin Luther King. The tone is incredibly academic, which is hardly surprising given that the author is a Yale professor of African American history and philosophy, but its not the kind of thing I would hand to somebody who wanted a primer on the history of black oppression or even an easy book to understand the black lives matter movement (which is what I was after). There's virtually no information on the current BLM movement, merely an examination of the historical underpinnings, rendering the book's title rather misleading.