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Jones describes law enforcement, the Tennessee State Assembly, and Governor Bill Lee's attempts to curtail their First and Fourth Amendment rights and the brutal and callous way they were treated while occupying a public space. The sixty-two days in this book are at once a reflection of, a prayer for, and an indictment of America in the Twenty-First Century. - Learotha Williams Jr., co-editor with Amie Thurber of I'll Take You There: Nashville Stories of Place, Power, and Struggle

Jones describes law enforcement, the Tennessee State Assembly, and Governor Bill Lee's attempts to curtail their First and Fourth Amendment rights and the brutal and callous way they were treated while occupying a public space. The sixty-two days in this book are at once a reflection of, a prayer for, and an indictment of America in the Twenty-First Century. - Learotha Williams Jr., co-editor with Amie Thurber of I'll Take You There: Exploring Nashville's Social Justice Sites

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Justin Jones is an activist, graduate student, and community organizer in Nashville. He came to Fisk University in 2013, where he received the John R. Lewis Scholarship for Social Activism. Inspired by its legacy of the student-led movement for civil rights, Jones became involved on campus and in community groups and spent the past nine years in Tennessee organizing campaigns for the expansion of healthcare in Tennessee, the repeal of restrictive state voter ID laws, the removal of confederate monuments, and community accountability in cases of police violence.

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