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Author | : Thomas Aiello |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2019-09-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807172529 |
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A remnant of the racist post-Reconstruction Redeemer sociopolitical agenda, Louisiana’s nonunanimous jury-verdict law permitted juries to convict criminal defendants with only nine, and later ten, out of twelve votes: a legal oddity. On the surface, it was meant to speed convictions. In practice, the law funneled many convicts—especially African Americans—into Louisiana’s burgeoning convict lease system. Although it faced multiple legal challenges through the years, the law endured well after convict leasing had ended. Few were aware of its existence, let alone its original purpose. In fact, the original publication of Jim Crow’s Last Stand was one of the first attempts to call attention to the historical injustice caused by this law. This updated edition of Jim Crow’s Last Stand unpacks the origins of the statute in Bourbon Louisiana, traces its survival through the civil rights era, and ends with the successful effort to overturn the nonunanimous jury practice, a policy that officially went into effect on January 1, 2019.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9781258980504 |
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This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : F. Michael Higginbotham |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1479845019 |
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Discusses the political, economic, educational, and social reasons the United States is not a "post-racial" society and argues that legal reform can successfully create a "post-racial" America.
Author | : Langston Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780826213402 |
Download The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.
Author | : Michelle Alexander |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2020-01-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1620971941 |
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Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
Author | : Jean Wagner |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252003417 |
Download Black Poets of the United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Traces the evolution of Afro-American poetry, highlighting individual poets up to the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
Author | : Victor H. Green |
Publisher | : Colchis Books |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Negro Motorist Green Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Author | : Anke Ortlepp |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2017-07-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 082035094X |
Download Jim Crow Terminals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center of the twentieth century’s transportation revolution, and airports embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States. When segregationists inscribed local definitions of whiteness and blackness onto sites of interstate and even international transit, they not only brought the incongruities of racial separation into sharp relief but also obligated the federal government to intervene. Ortlepp looks at African American passengers; civil rights organizations; the federal government and judiciary; and airport planners, architects, and managers as actors in shaping aviation’s legal, cultural, and built environments. She relates the struggles of black travelers—to enjoy the same freedoms on the airport grounds that they enjoyed in the aircraft cabin—in the context of larger shifts in the postwar social, economic, and political order. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation over the renegotiation of racial identities. Hence, this new study situates itself in the scholarly debate over the multifaceted entanglements of “race” and “space.”
Author | : Lynn M. Hudson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252052226 |
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African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, "The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled." From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State—in contrast to its reputation for tolerance—perfected many methods of controlling people of color. Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state's color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan's campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregationists' preoccupation with gender and sexuality.