A series of pivotal moments in American history have been captured and influenced by images that proliferate the public consciousness and discourse.
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, John Lewis being beaten there. Bloody Sunday. Students at Kent State University who were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen. Brutal images of war from Vietnam. Trayvon Martin. George Floyd.
Jonathan Alter traces a through line between these inflection points to the present and the murder of Renee Good. History unfolds in unpredictable ways, but it could be the beginning of more sustained resistance to Trump’s private army.
