This article highlights the history of black women’s efforts to end state-sanctioned violence in New York during the 1980s. It centers on the political activities of Mary Bumpurs and Veronica Perry, two black women who led a grassroots initiative in New York City to combat police violence in black communities. Foreshadowing the kinds of activities organized by the Mothers of the Movement, Mary and Veronica joined forces to combat police brutality, transforming their grief into political action. These women effectively politicized their roles as mothers and daughters to challenge police violence on local and national levels. Through their writing and speeches—which reflected the political milieu of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s—Mary and Veronica advanced a political ideology based on a historical contextual understanding of racism. They not only addressed police violence in the 1980s but also drew a link between the activities of the Ku Klux Klan and the New York Police Department to emphasize the historical legacies of racist violence in the United States and the role law enforcement played in maintaining it.

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“我们将克服系统今天变成的任何[它]”：1980 年代纽约市黑人妇女组织反对警察暴力

本文重点介绍了 1980 年代纽约黑人妇女为结束国家认可的暴力而做出的努力的历史。它以 Mary Bumpurs 和 Veronica Perry 的政治活动为中心，这两位黑人女性在纽约市领导了一项旨在打击黑人社区警察暴力的基层倡议。预示着运动之母组织的各种活动，玛丽和维罗妮卡联手打击警察的暴行，将他们的悲痛转化为政治行动。这些妇女有效地将她们作为母亲和女儿的角色政治化，以挑战地方和国家层面的警察暴力。通过他们的写作和演讲——这反映了 1960 年代和 1970 年代黑人权力运动的政治环境——玛丽和维罗妮卡提出了一种基于对种族主义的历史背景理解的政治意识形态。