Introduction
My project will examine how the United States’ social and legal system has treated and found ways to maintain control over African Americans throughout history. I am particularly showing the… Read more »
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Unfair Arrests, Unjust Trials, and the Black Criminality Myth
A photograph of Ossian Sweet, an African American physician in Detroit, Michigan, who was charged for murder in 1925, after defending his home from… Read more »
The War on Drugs
Linn Washington Jr’s Philadelphia Tribune article written on February 4th, 1997, titled “U.S. drug laws have disproportionately affected Blacks” documents the crackdown on African Americans and Hispanic Americans from… Read more »
The Prison Boom leading to Mass Incarceration
Earl Caldwell’s August 1st, 1971 New York Times article, “Negroes Held Oppressed by the Law” explains how the criminal justice system is disproportionately arresting and incarcerating African Americans and other… Read more »
Bibliography
Primary Sources: Alexander, Michelle, National Public Radio. By Dave Davies. January 6, 2012 African Americans in Black Bottom, A History of American Life in Images and Texts, 2009. Blinder, Alan…. Read more »