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An intimate portrait of Trayvon Martin shares previously untold insights into the movement he inspired from the perspectives of his parents, who also describe their efforts to bring meaning to his short life through the movement's pursuit of redemption and justice.

In alternating chapters, Martin's parents tell of their son's tragically foreshortened life. They provide insights into the cruel unresponsiveness of the police and hostility of the legal system, and describe their efforts to bring meaning, redemption and justice to his short life. Their voices launched a movement that would change the nation.

"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 can of juice 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 their intense love for their lost son--discovered their voices, gathered allies, and launched a movement that would change the country. Five years after his tragic death, Trayvon Martin's name is still evoked every day. He has become a symbol of social justice activism, as has his hauntingly familiar image: the photo of a child still in the process of becoming a young man, wearing a hoodie and gazing silently at the camera. But who was Trayvon Martin, before he became, in death, an icon? And how did one black child's death on a dark, rainy street in a small Florida town become the match that lit a civil rights crusade? Rest in Power, told through the compelling alternating narratives of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, answers, for the first time, those questions from the most intimate of sources. It's the story of the beautiful and complex child they lost, the cruel unresponsiveness of the police and the hostility of the legal system, and the inspiring journey they took from grief and pain to power, and from tragedy and senselessness to meaning."--Dust jacket.

Rest in power : a parents' story of love, injustice, and the birth of a movement.

Enduring life of Trayvon Martin.

Sybrina : Our Lives Before

Tracy : February 26, 2012-February 27, 2012

Sybrina : February 27, 2012

Tracy : February 27, 2012-March 8, 2012

Sybrina : February 27, 2012-March 8, 2012

Tracy : February 29, 2012-March 9, 2012

Sybrina : March 9, 2012-March 16, 2012

Tracy : March 16, 2012-March 21, 2012

Sybrina : March 22, 2012

March 26, 2012

Tracy : March 27, 2012-July 6, 2012

Sybrina : March 12, 2013-July 27, 2013

Tracy : June 28, 2013-July 10, 2013

Sybrina : July 12, 2013.

African American men > Biography.

African American teenagers > Biography.

Racial profiling in law enforcement > United States.

Race discrimination > United States > History > 21st century.

Racism > United States > History > 21st century.