Lift your voice : how my nephew George Floyd's murder changed the world

Lift your voice How my nephew George Floyd's murder changed the world

Angela Harrelson

Book - 2022

Angela Harrelson, George Floyd's aunt and closest relative, tells the behind-the-scenes story of George's family--how he lived and why he died--and how the world can find a solution to racism through his death. This is the story of Angela's lifelong relationship with George Floyd--whom the family called Perry--and how, after being suddenly thrust into the spotlight, she went on a quest to make sure her nephew did not die in vain. It's a story of tragic loss and a worldwide uprising to ensure Perry's death ushers society into a time where people are no longer judged, hated, or killed because of the color of their skin.

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Subjects
Floyd, George, > 1973-2020.
Harrelson, Angela.
Police brutality > United States.
Racism in law enforcement.
Racism against Black people > United States > History > 21st century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Genres
Autobiographies
Biographies
Published
New York : Post Hill Press [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Angela Harrelson (author)
Other Authors
Michael Graubart Levin (author)
Physical Description
195 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781637583371
  • Chapter 1. "The Police Killed Your Nephew. Do You Have Any Comment?"
  • Chapter 2. "This Is the White Train, Not the Soul Train": Growing Up in the Racist South
  • Chapter 3. Why Black People Are Out of Patience
  • Chapter 4. The Runaway Slave Mentality and the Police
  • Chapter 5. It Must Be Good to Be White
  • Chapter 6. The Verdict on Derek Chauvin
  • Chapter 7. One Year Out
  • Chapter 8. How My Faith Pulled Me through the Pain
  • Chapter 9. The Bitter and the Sweet-Derek Chauvin's Sentencing
  • Chapter 10. What Must Happen Next
  • Chapter 11. How Can We Teach Our Children to Be Antiracist?
  • Appendix: Victim Impact Statement
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this unfortunately thin account, George Floyd's maternal aunt voices her hurt and outrage at Derek Chauvin's murder of her nephew in 2020. Harrelson, who was born in 1962, recounts how, like her nephew, she experienced her fair share of endemic racism growing up in Goldsboro, N.C. Despite the adversity she faced, she earned several degrees and became a nurse specializing in chemical dependency. Harrelson details the deep attachment she felt to her nephew, who the family called Perry, and who "was in his 40s, and... wasn't getting anywhere" when his mother--her sister, Larcenia Jones Floyd--died. After his mother's death in 2018, Floyd and Harrelson fell out of touch. "The next time I saw Perry," she recalls, "was when he was on that hot sidewalk with that officer's knee on his neck, and he couldn't breathe." Horrified at his murder, she vowed to make his killing consequential by speaking out, including by providing a victim impact statement following Chauvin's homicide conviction. "The day the verdict... came in, I stood at memorial and felt peace." Despite her passion and sincerity, though, Harrelson's story is often repetitive and shares little new details about Floyd's actual life. Even sympathetic readers will find this disappointing. (Feb.)

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