We all understand the role of police brutality in galvanizing the Black Lives Matter movement and as central to the movement’s demands. However, with the exception of a few iconic figures like Bull Connor in Birmingham, the police are less visible in public memory of the Civil Rights Movement. Yet, as Joshua Clark Davis tells in dramatic prose in Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back, the police were just as big a player in the 1960s as they are now. Hear from Davis in conversation with SNCC veteran Judy Richardson at Politics & Prose (Conn. Ave.). Learn more.