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Author
Series
Earl Swagger novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
491 p. ; 25 cm.
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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...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"The wrenching, and inspiring, story of a fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison, of the extraordinary relationship that developed between him and the woman he shot, and of his release after twenty-six years of imprisonment through the efforts of America's greatest contemporary legal activist, Bryan Stevenson. Here is the story of a poor black kid from the toughest neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, who at age eleven began "jacking" (stealing)...
5) Time
Series
Criterion collection volume 1109
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the fight of Sibil Fox Richardson, also known as Fox Rich, for the release of her husband from prison where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery.
6) Time
Series
Criterion collection volume 1109
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Documents the fight of Sibil Fox Richardson, also known as Fox Rich, for the release of her husband from prison where he is serving a sixty-year sentence for robbery.
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In May 1985, Darryl Hunt, a Black teenager in Winston-Salem, N.C. was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young white copyeditor at the local paper. In 2003, an award-winning series of articles led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt. Part true crime drama, part chronicle of a remarkable life cut short by systemic prejudice, this book powerfully illuminates the sustained catastrophe faced by an innocent...
8) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 466 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these 'debts,' prisoners were sold...
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Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xi, 268 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"In 1991, Shaka Senghor was sent to prison for second-degree murder. Today, he is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, a leading voice on criminal justice reform, and an inspiration to thousands. In life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish. Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle class neighborhood on Detroit's east side during the height of the 1980s crack epidemic. An honor roll student and a natural leader, he dreamed...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
lxx, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a rare and original autobiography, a first-person account of a young black man's life as an indentured servant, a juvenile delinquent, and a prisoner in New York State in the mid-nineteenth century. Austin Reed was born a free man near Rochester, NY in the 1820s. As a young adult, he was sent to a juvenile reform school in Manhattan, where he learned to read and write. In the decades that followed,...
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