Protest is central to the United States. A Kansas City author explores 500 years of resistance

CUNY constitutional law professor Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, a Kansas City native, will return to her hometown next month for a Rainy Day Books event about her new book “A Protest History of the United States.”

From abolitionists to suffragists and centuries of anti-war efforts, the United States is arguably a country founded by and built on top of protest.

In her recent book “A Protest History of t…