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More Black Men Now in Prison System than Enslaved in 1850
Dick Price – LA Progressive, 18 Apr 2011

“More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began,” Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday [6 Apr 2011]… Alexander, currently a law professor at Ohio State, had been brought in to discuss her year-old bestseller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

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