Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (Justice, Power, and Politics)

In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, blac…

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