‘The Criminalization of Black Children’: A New Book on Chicago’s Juvenile System
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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criminal justice system
Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by historian Jon Hale as
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The 1967 Detroit Uprising and the Failure of the Criminal Justice System
Standing before judge Robert Columbo, a Detroiter made a standard defendant’s request to be released on his own recognizance. He
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Eugenics and the Modern Conservative Movement
On December 26, 2017, The New York Times published an op-ed by the widely known North Carolinian activist, Rev. William
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Student Activism and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. High school student activism in Mississippi during the 1960s highlights the overlooked
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