Rest in power: the enduring life of trayvon martin-a parents' story

✍ Scribed by Sybrina Fulton

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 228 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0812997247

✦ Synopsis

The intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement
On a February evening in 2012, in a small town in central Florida, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home with candy and a soda in hand and talking on the phone with a friend when a fatal encounter with a gun-wielding neighborhood watchman ended his young life. The watchman was briefly detained by the police and released. Trayvon's father--a truck driver named Tracy--tried to get answers from the police but was shut down and ignored. Trayvon's mother, a civil servant for the City of Miami, was paralyzed by the news of her son's death and lost in mourning, unable to leave her room for days. But in a matter of weeks, their son's name would be spoken by President Obama, honored by professional athletes, and passionately discussed all over traditional and social media. And at the head of a growing nationwide campaign for justice were Trayvon's parents, who--driven by...