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Johnetta "Netta" Elzie is an American civil rights activist. She is one of the leaders in the activist group We The Protesters and co-edits the Ferguson protest newsletter ''This Is the Movement'' with fellow activist DeRay Mckesson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pen-ne.org/the-howard-zinn-award/ )〕 ==Civil rights activism== Elzie has been active in the Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland protests and she, along with Mckesson, created "Mapping Police Violence", which collected data on people killed by police during 2014. The ''Los Angeles Times'' has named Elzie and Mckesson as two of the twenty-one people on their list of "The new civil rights leaders: Emerging voices in the 21st century" based on their activism work. The New York Times profiles Elzie and McKesson as leaders of the group that built "the nation's first 21st-century civil rights movement." Elzie uses social media outlets such as Twitter in her activism. In January 2015 ''The Atlantic'' named her one of the leaders of the Black Lives Matter Movement. She became active in the Ferguson and Baltimore protests after hearing that Michael Brown had been shot and killed close to where she lived in St. Louis.〔 Along with Samuel Sinyangwe, Elzie created the project Mapping Police Violence. 〔Day, Elizabeth. "#BlackLivesMatter: the birth of a new civil rights movement". http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/19/blacklivesmatter-birth-civil-rights-movement〕 She has been a field organizer for Amnesty International, and has volunteered with a girls' group called the Sophia Project in St. Louis. 〔Johnetta Elzie. Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johnetta-elzie/〕〔"MLK Day Clash At Harris-Stowe Leads To Conversation">. St. Louis Public Radio. http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/mlk-day-clash-harris-stowe-leads-conversation〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johnetta Elzie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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