Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era by Dan Berger

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Dan Berger

424 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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, black activists thrust the prison into public view,...

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