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Black Lives Matter

A Subject Guide providing suggested resources and other information for beginning research on the topic Black Lives Matter.

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Suggested Keywords

Try these keywords when searching for information about your topic. 

  • Anti-Black racism
  • Anti-racism/antiracism
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Black Lives Matter movement
  • Civil rights-- 21st century
  • Ferguson protests
  • Hands up, don't shoot
  • Police brutality
  • Protest movements
  • Racial equity
  • Racial justice movements
  • Trayvon Martin