This document contains summaries of 6 sources related to the Black Lives Matter movement and civil rights issues. The sources include books, articles, news reports, and a survey discussing topics like the history and logic of the civil rights movement, police tactics and the debate around their use of force, debates around claims of racism in the criminal justice system, specific protests and incidents related to police shootings of black individuals, and black Americans' views on changes in civil rights over time.

1. Jessie Lycans
Harold Blanco
FYS 100
8 February 2016
Annotated Bibliography
Luders, J. E. (2010). The civil rights movement and the logic of social change. Cambridge:Cambridge
University Press.
Joseph E. Luders, the author, is an associate professor in Political Science at Yeshiva University
and co-chair of the Department of Political Science. The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social
Change was reviewed by Aldon Morris & Patrick Jones and published by Cambridge University Press.
Luders wrote the book to inform and educate scholars, students, and specialists on the foundation of the
Civil Rights movement by refining theories of social movement outcomes. The unbiased central book
focuses on his asking of why social movements succeed or fail, under what conditions are movements
capable of by getting their desired wants from their targets. According to Luders, attention should be
brought to the difficult consideration made by the targets of social movement activity and to the impact of
third parties on movement target interactions to have a better view of how interactions determine the
movement outcomes. This book relates to Black Lives Matter by providing a foundation of outcomes
amongst civil rights movements in the past. This book is credible by being peer review by other authors
and professors, and published by the Cambridge University Press.
Katel, P. (2014, December 12). Police tactics. CQ Researcher,24,1033-1060. Retrieved from
http://library.cqpress.com/
This article discusses how police officers use their tactics in defense. Since the killing of an
unarmed black teenager in August 2014, the protests have risen about how officers do their job. People
have debated on whether the “military style” is right or not. Some say the officers overuse the SWAT
team for serving warrants and enforcing drug laws. Others view it as the officers are following the laws of
the land and serving their communities. The high profiled police killings, like the one in Ferguson, MO,
has aroused many to what they think is excessive police brutality against black males. As stated in the con
side of the article, the SWAT teams are used to serve high-risked warrants and are not against race,
culture or type of crime but rather dangerous criminal behaviors. The right measures should be based on
the measurable attributes rather than the biased perceptions. This article shows credibility because of
Peter Katel,a journalist, who has written many articles about situations like this one and where the
sources he gathered his information from.
WILLIAMSON,K. D. (2015). No War on Cops, No War on Blacks. National Review,67(18),18
This article talks about how America isn’t facing a war towards police officers, nor towards
African Americans. It discusses how America has had its systematic failures and that is the problem. The
crimes against police officers are addressed and also Black Lives Matters social protest movement.
Debates continue between Black Lives Matter and the police from who deals with the worst violent
crimes, when there is plenty of blame on both sides of the argument. The article discusses in further detail
the death of Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri and the 28 police officers shot in 2015. The article is
credible because it is peer reviewed.

2. Five People Shot at Black Lives Matter Protest in Minneapolis. (2015, November 25). Facts on File.
World News Digest. Retrieved February 11, 2016
This website converses about five people being shot at Black Lives Matter protest in
Minneapolis, MO. They discuss how many of the protestors who were there at the shooting created a list
for the authorities to meet of wanting the tape to be released, the officers involved to have their names
released,and to have further investigation on Clark’s, the unarmed black man who was shot, death. The
website also states that the initial reports of Clark’s death was unclear whether he had actually been killed
at the scene or not. His family reported that he was brain dead after the shooting, but the police reported
that he died the next day from his injuries. The hospital conformed the police’s reports. Afterwards,there
had been hundreds of people protesting the night of Clark’s death and the next day not only in front of the
police station, but also out on the local interstate. This caused police to arrest 51 individuals for blocking
the interstate for hours. The BCA, Bureau of Criminal Apprehensions, stated that the two police officers
responded to a request for assistance from the paramedics who reported Clark disrupting their ability to
aid an assault victim. Clark was a suspect in the assault and during their argument between the two
policemen and Clark, it ensued one of the officers to discharge his gun and shooting Clark. A few days
later, protestors began throwing rocks and bottles at the police vehicles. An officer shot a couple marking
rounds because a protestor was throwing bricks at him. This website is credible by showing the sources of
where the information came from and peer reviewed.
Gallup. (n.d.). Black Americans: Do you feel civil rights for blacks in this country have improved, stayed
the same,or worsened?. In Statista - The Statistics Portal. Retrieved February 11, 2016, from
http://www.statista.com/statistics/284111/evaluation-of-black-americans--civil-rights-in-the-us/.
The website, Statista, conducted a survey in 2013 with how Black American’s think civil rights
have changed for them over time. The question states “Do you feelcivil rights for blacks in this country
have improved, stayed the same,or worsened?” They show that twenty five percent of African-American
individuals said that the civil rights situation has greatly improved over time. The fifty five percent shows
that the civil rights situation has somewhat improved. Over half of the remaining twenty percent says that
it has stayed the same. This website shows credibility by providing precise and neutral statistics from
honest individuals.