Demonstrates how the jail, no bail tactic moved the movement from a response to a crisis to an event that drew media notice and focused the country s attention on the injustice of segregation. Choice Examines the history of the civil rights movement and the criminal justice system beyond the court rooms and into the arrests, jail cells, and prisons that were the locus of grassroots protests and organizing. Robert Cassanello, author of To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South JacksonvilleIn this book, Zoe Colley follows civil rights...
Demonstrates how the jail, no bail tactic moved the movement from a response to a crisis to an event that drew media notice and focused the country s ...