The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages290 pages
ISBN
9781595581037
Published
2010
Description
Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the klu klux klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by klan intimidation; ...Jarvious Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the klu klux klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and literacy tests.