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This lively book guides readers through the art and history of significant protests, sit-ins, and collective acts of resistance throughout US history. Photos, artwork, signs, and other visual elements highlight the history of social action, from American Indian resistance to colonists through Black Lives Matter and Women's Marches. Into the Streets introduces the personalities and issues that drove these protests, as well as their varied aims and...

Journalist Roychoudhuri draws on years of reporting on the George W. Bush administration as well as her own experiences as a queer woman of color to summarize and question the common assumptions about truth and power in America in the age of Trump. Throughout the book, she elicits a spirit of hope, describing strategies for those wishing to foster a more open and diverse society to avoid cynicism, speak out readily against bias and racism, and conceive...