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Joshua Clark Davis

@JoshClarkDavis

Author POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT (2025) on civil rights activists vs. state violence, surveillance | Historian @ubaltmain | Bylines @thenation @jacobin @slate

Baltimore, Maryland Katılım Nisan 2014
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Joshua Clark Davis@JoshClarkDavis·
Wrote a preview of my book. 60 years ago today, the March on Washington captured America's attention--including the attention of police spies from NYC, Chicago, Birmingham + Philly. Histories of the March should mention this surveillance. slate.com/news-and-polit…
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SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
'In this excerpt from Joshua Clark Davis's new book Police Against The Movement, the author explains how "local law enforcement and their allies perpetrated a far-reaching erasure of history".' Police Departments Tracked Activists in the 1960s and 70s — Then Erased Records teenvogue.com/story/police-d… | @TeenVogue
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Piper French
Piper French@PiperSFrench·
People usually associate law enforcement repression of black activism w/ the naked brutality of Birmingham or the Panthers vs the FBI. That's not the whole story. I reviewed a new book about local police surveillance of the civil rights movement for @newrepublic 's new issue:
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Stuart Schrader
Stuart Schrader@stschrader1·
If you'd like to read more about this very point—how police veto elected officials' decisions—I've written a whole book on the topic, called Blue Power! It's now available for preorder from @BasicBooks, 20% discount with the code BLUE20. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuart-…
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The Drift@thedrift_mag

“I find it ridiculous and inimical to democracy that police have veto power over elected officials’ decisions, and that politicians therefore need to walk on eggshells so as not to offend them.” Read our interview with @stschrader1 in Issue Sixteen. thedriftmag.com/our-diminished…

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My new Intercept piece on the NYPD’s targeting of MLK is up today, with never-before-published police surveillance photos of King.
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The Intercept
The Intercept@theintercept·
After J. Edgar Hoover cast the civil rights leader as a “liar,” NYPD’s spy unit heeded the call. interc.pt/4pCLk9a
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Joshua Clark Davis@JoshClarkDavis·
I'll be in Brooklyn to discuss POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT with Chenjerai Kumanyika this Thursday, 11/06 at The Word is Change!
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Joshua Clark Davis@JoshClarkDavis·
Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT about how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones likely on MLK’s assassination.
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Public Defenseless Podcast
Public Defenseless Podcast@PDefenselessPod·
Today, I spoke w @JoshClarkDavis about his new book, Police Against the Movement. In it, Joshua recounts how local police departments infiltrated, surveilled, and sabotaged civil rights orgs, how those orgs fought back, and what it means for modern police reform movements
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Joshua Clark Davis@JoshClarkDavis·
My book, POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT, comes out 10/7 and I'm going on a book tour! 10/07, SF: City Lights 10/09, LA: Skylight 10/16, Baltimore: Red Emma's 10/18, DC: Politics & Prose 11/06, NYC: The Word Is Change 12/02, Baltimore: Enoch Pratt 12/04, Atlanta: A Cappella
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Joshua Clark Davis@JoshClarkDavis·
@stschrader1 I’m really glad you’re enjoying it! Your feedback on multiple chapters was seriously helpful.
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Stuart Schrader
Stuart Schrader@stschrader1·
Today’s beach read: Police Against the Movement, by @JoshClarkDavis. It is SO good! Out in October.
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Joshua Clark Davis@JoshClarkDavis·
George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today. The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.
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