Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter | Dan P Moore
5 posts | 3 read | 3 to read
The graphic narrative history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the participants. When Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old black man, was fatally shot by police, the city broke out into nonviolent civil disobedience that was met with further police violence. This was the first major uprising of the 21st Century, matched only by the LA riots a decade before and the protests in Ferguson over a decade later. Author and illustrator Dan Mendez Moore was 17 at the time when he participated in the six days of protests that shook the city between Thomas's death and his funeral. Mendez Moore's comics-journalism account sensitively captures a fiery moment in U.S. history through interviews with protestors, community leaders, bystanders, and a frustrated looter. He portrays the tension of a city boiling over, political leaders taking advantage, and an inner-city community coming together. Six Days in Cincinnati is a nonfiction graphic novel that tells an all-American story of systemic racism and the power of popular movements, more relevant in our post-Ferguson era than ever before.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
bio_chem06
post image

Today‘s porch read. So glad I took a short time to read this graphic novel. I was living near Cincinnati when this happened and it‘s amazing how time can play tricks on a memory...

review
megnews
post image
Pickpick

With its location on the Ohio River, Cincinnati has a long history of problems and activism. In 2001, a movement begins after the 15th young African-American male in 6 years is killed by Cincinnati police. Six Days in Cincinnati would be a good addition to any classroom or school library to help youth understand the unrest that continues to erupt around our country.

#Blacklivesmatter before the movement began

Book 32/90 1/24/19

blurb
megnews
post image

I am having an amazing reading month and a great start to my reading year all because Litsy turned me on to #graphicnovels & #graphicmemoirs. A genre I would have never really pictured myself reading. I even picked up a few more tonight. So thanks to all of you I am going to have to expand my annual #readinggoal. Just trying to think of a good number.

review
elizabethlk
post image
Pickpick

Despite much interruption (see previous post), I was able to finish this one relatively quickly. Dan Moore includes his own story, as well as the stories of many others who were involved in one way or another during the riots. The art wasn't really my preferred style, but the research and insight mad this a fantastic piece of comics journalism. The injustices that led to the riots sound like anything you might hear in the news today.

blurb
elizabethlk
post image

The cat seems determined to prevent me from reading tonight. #catsoflitsy #catass

HelloImJez #catass I'm all for this tag, it should definitely be a regularly tagged thing. 😆 7y
DebinHawaii 😹😹😹 7y
elizabethlk @HelloImJez I don't understand why it isn't used more. I can't count the number of times I have had a book interrupted by #catass 7y
54 likes1 stack add3 comments