After the death of George Floyd - and long before

Photo above by Nina-Maria Potts, Washington DC, 6pm, 4 June 2020

Malcolm X Park/ Meridian Hill,
Washington DC. Statue of Joan of Arc,
Photo by Nina-Maria Potts, 6 June, 2020.

1963 (USA and UK). Penguin Books, 1964

1965, UK; 1964, USA

1964 (UK)

1966

1957 

1969 (UK)

1971 

This posting of old book covers was prompted after reading a poem, "it ends like this", by Louisa Adjoa Parker, about the deaths of Eric Garner (and George Floyd), which she tweeted on 2 June. Words may change, acts of cruelty don't.


An influential book:

 1926

Historical Recordings (audio cassettes), 2002

(French ed., 1952; USA, 1967; UK, 1968, 1970)

Arena documentary on James Baldwin (BBCiPlayer)

Misan Harriman on photographing London’s BLM protests, British Journal of Photography