FERGUSON, Mo. — Amid the tear gas and tweets, armored vehicles and expletive-laced chants that followed the death of Michael Brown at the hands of a police officer two years ago, a new generation of demonstrators embraced a different paradigm. They shunned the tactics of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, speaking of rage and pain in place of love and unity. Their chants were a reminder of the failures of the movement that preceded them, not its successes. Their goal was to make you uncomfortable — if you weren’t already. Two years later, the name of a once relatively unknown north St. Louis County suburb remains ubiquitous. It is invoked at dinner tables, in...
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