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FROM BLACK POWER TO PRISON POWER : the making of Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

Tibbs, Donald F

Overview

\"This book uses the landmark case Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union to examine the strategies of prison inmates using race and radicalism to inspire the formation of an inmate labor union. It thus rekindles the debate over the triumphs and troubles associated with the use of Black Power as a platform for influencing legal policy and effecting change for inmates. While the ideology of the prison rights movement was complex, it rested on the underlying principle that the right to organize, and engage in political dissidence, was not only a First Amendment right guaranteed to free blacks, but one that should be explicitly guaranteed to captive blacks--a point too often overlooked in previous analyses. Ultimately, this seminal case study not only illuminates the history of Black Power but that of the broader prisoners' rights movement as well\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: N.C. Prisoners' Labor Union Trials, litigation, etc. / North Carolina. Dept. of Correction Trials, litigation, etc. / African American prisoners Legal status, laws, etc. United States. / Freedom of association United States. / Labor unions Law and legislation United States. / Black power North Carolina History 20th century. / HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. / HISTORY / Social History. / LAW / Civil Rights. / LAW / Legal History. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
• ISBN: 9780230340169, 0230340164

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
KF228.N2 T53 2012	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE