Rest in Power
Sybrina Fulton
Random House Publishing Group
<b>The intimate story of a tragically foreshortened life and the rise of a movement</b><br> 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&#8212;a truck driver named Tracy&#8212;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&#8212;driven by...</br>