PHIL 1213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The New Jim Crow, Reconstruction Era
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Michelle alexander-the new jim crow-mass incarceration in the age of. 17th century), us constitutional origins and history, political and economic developments eventually leading up to the civil war, the development of jim. Crow practices, limited progress on civil rights and liberties during the. Reconstruction era, post-reconstruction regression on civil rights and liberties, continuation and intensification of jim crow , despite some seeming legal victories for civil rights and liberties, brown vs. board of education (1955), the. Civil rights movement of the 1960s, civil rights act (1964), voting rights act (1965), white supremacist resistance to limited civil rights progress for african- Americans, the war on drugs (mainly a product of the 1980s to the present). Alexander refers early in her book (with evident respect) to c. vann woodward"s. The strange career of jim crow (1955) as an account of part of the relevant history.
