Professor Stefan M. Bradley will be returning to St. Louis to be in conversation with St. Louis community activists and thought leaders Jamala Rogers and Jonathan Pulphus and to speak about his latest book “If We Don’t Get It: A People’s History of Ferguson” at Left Bank Books in the Central West End or online on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.
An author of several prizewinning books, including “Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power and the League” and “Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s”, Bradley, now a named professor of Black studies at Amherst College, in “If We Don’t Get It…” shows how Mike Brown’s murder sparked a grassroots movement for democracy, led by Black youth, which transformed the way we talk about race, justice, and policing in the United States.
Through the authentic voices of the movement’s participants, Bradley, who conducted over two dozen interviews with young Black protesters, describes the motivation and tensions coursing through the uprising’s early days and weeks, the problems of media representation (and misrepresentation), intergenerational conflict over protest tactics, and clashes with the police and politicians.
For personalized signed copies of “If We Don’t Get It: A People’s History of Ferguson” by Stefan M. Bradley, please order the book from Left Banks Books by Tuesday, May 20, at 12 p.m. Please RSVP to attend the event.
Left Bank Books is located at 399 N. Euclid Avenues, St. Louis, Missouri, 63108. For more information, call 314-367-6731 or go to: https://www.left-bank.com/
