Today, the black civil rights movements of the United States are still actively battling against some of the primary issues that their forebears were concerned with: the apparent expendability of black bodies and the representation of black people as criminals. There is a consistency in goals and challenges that has remained present through the struggle against slavery, the civil rights movements of the 1960s, and Black Lives Matter today. Although significant progress has been made in relation
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