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Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship (Audiobook)
English | April 12, 2022 | ASIN: B09V3JKPCK | M4B@64 kbps | 7h 45m | 218 MB
Author and Narrator: Hawa Allan
The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts. Its power is integrally linked to the perceived threat of Black American equity in what lawyer and critic Hawa Allan demonstrates is a dangerous paradox. While the act was initially used to repress rebellion against slavery, during Reconstruction, it was invoked by President Grant to quell white-supremacist uprisings in the South. During the civil rights movement, it enabled the protection of Black students who attended previously segregated educational institutions. Most recently, the Insurrection Act has been the vehicle for presidents to call upon federal troops to suppress so-called "race riots" like those in Los Angeles in 1992, and for them to threaten to do so in other cases of racial justice activism.