Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City Juvenile Nonfiction Biography & Autobiography Music Music Rock African American & Black the first African woman and first 9780465060689 the first African woman and first environmentalist to win a Nobel Peace Prize (in 2004) for her work planting trees in her native Kenya This message not only succeeded in uniting the tribes but also forever changed how the Iroquois governed themselves—a blueprint for democracy that would later inspire the authors of the US Constitution intimate portrait of Eleanor Bumpurs's life and legacy highlights how one Black grandmother’s brutal police murder galvanized an entire city The life and 1984 murder of a beloved Black grandmother that changed community activism forever—and sparked the ongoing movement against racist policing and brutality