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Front: Howard Beach incident – racially motivated attack on African Americans

Back: Michael Griffith – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: 23-year-old African American male murdered after being harassed by white men

Back: Michael Griffith – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Friends Sandiford and Grimes also attacked – Grimes escaped Sandiford knocked unconscious

Back: Michael Griffith – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Griffith killed by an automobile while fleeing attackers

Back: Michael Griffith – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Dominick Blum court officer found innocent – ties to police corruption

Back: Michael Griffith – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: High Bridge incident – elderly Black woman shot by police

Back: Eleanor Bumpers – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Late 60s diabetic arthritic woman labeled “mentally ill” by police

Back: Eleanor Bumpers – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Failed to pay rent for five months – led to forced eviction

Back: Eleanor Bumpers – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Shot in the chest by a shotgun – six officers vs. one woman

Back: Eleanor Bumpers – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Contradictory reports about how and why she was killed

Back: Eleanor Bumpers – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Arrested for graffiti and possession of a marijuana cigarette stub

Back: Michael Stewart – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Arrested to hospital in 32 minutes – arrived in coma handcuffed legs taped

Back: Michael Stewart – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Died two weeks later from cardiac arrest and spinal damage – police brutality

Back: Michael Stewart – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Civil trial declared “lack of evidence” – no justice

Back: Michael Stewart – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Witnesses too afraid to testify – fear and systemic protection of police

Back: Michael Stewart – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: 15-year-old Black high schooler abducted and raped by law enforcement

Back: Tawana Brawley – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Found wrapped in a plastic garbage bag – symbolic of dehumanization

Back: Tawana Brawley – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Evidence covered up – corruption and injustice

Back: Tawana Brawley – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: Stayed true to her story despite backlash and disbelief

Back: Tawana Brawley – Social Commentary in DTRT

Front: “Got to give us what we want gotta give us what we need.” – demand for justice

Back: Public Enemy – Fight the Power (1989)

Front: “Our freedom of speech is freedom or death.” – high stakes of activism

Back: Public Enemy – Fight the Power (1989)

Front: “People people we are the same… no we are not the same.” – racial inequality

Back: Public Enemy – Fight the Power (1989)

Front: “Mental self-defensive fitness.” – awareness as protection

Back: Public Enemy – Fight the Power (1989)

Front: “Make everybody see in order to fight the powers that be.” – awakening others

Back: Public Enemy – Fight the Power (1989)

Front: “Elvis John Wayne” – calling out white cultural heroes

Back: Public Enemy – Fight the Power (1989)

Front: “Cause I’m Black and I’m proud.” – reclaiming racial pride

Back: Public Enemy – Fight the Power (1989)

Front: “Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps.” – erasure of Black icons

Back: Public Enemy – Fight the Power (1989)

Front: Criticizes American culture of violence and hypocrisy

Back: Arthur Miller – On the Shooting of Robert Kennedy

Front: “Violence in our streets is the violence in our hearts.” – internalized aggression

Back: Arthur Miller – On the Shooting of Robert Kennedy

Front: “We have daily honored violence.” – societal glorification of destruction

Back: Arthur Miller – On the Shooting of Robert Kennedy

Front: “We are afraid…” – fear drives violence and denial

Back: Arthur Miller – On the Shooting of Robert Kennedy

Front: “Between the promise and its denial stands the man with the gun.” – broken American Dream

Back: Arthur Miller – On the Shooting of Robert Kennedy

Front: American Dream becomes nightmare – moral decline

Back: Arthur Miller – On the Shooting of Robert Kennedy

Front: Praises America for compassion and hope toward refugees

Back: Elie Wiesel – The America I Love

Front: Acknowledges both good and bad – paradox of coexistence

Back: Elie Wiesel – The America I Love

Front: “...is great not because its economy is flourishing or its army invincible but because…” – moral greatness over power

Back: Elie Wiesel – The America I Love

Front: “For an individual as for a nation to be free is an admirable duty.” – freedom as responsibility

Back: Elie Wiesel – The America I Love

Front: “Hope for the key…” – enduring optimism after tragedy

Back: Elie Wiesel – The America I Love

Front: Buchenwald concentration camp survivor perspective

Back: Elie Wiesel – The America I Love

Front: Cain and Abel – biblical allusion to human conflict and guilt

Back: Elie Wiesel – The America I Love

Front: “America is the strength to overcome cynicism and despair.” – ultimate message of resilience

Back: Elie Wiesel – The America I Love

Front: “The latter I gave the people on the boat… it” – doing what’s right

Back: Benjamin Franklin – The Autobiography

Front: “...clean-dressed people…” – appearances reflect social norms and labels

Back: Benjamin Franklin – The Autobiography

Front: “...I fell fast asleep…” – satirical point: Quaker meeting useless sleep most productive

Back: Benjamin Franklin – The Autobiography

Front: Religion is inclusive but exclusive to outsiders

Back: Benjamin Franklin – The Autobiography

Front: Virtues list: temperance/silence/order/resolution/frugality/industry/sincerity/justice/moderation/cleanliness/tranquility/chastity/humility

Back: Benjamin Franklin – The Autobiography