Waubonsee Community College

Ain't scared of your jail, arrest, imprisonment, and the civil rights movement, Zoe A. Colley

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-153) and index

index present

non fiction

Ain't scared of your jail

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Zoe A. Colley

New perspectives on the history of the South

arrest, imprisonment, and the civil rights movement

An exploration of the impact on imprisonment of individuals involved in the Civil Rights Movement as a whole"Beyond Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letters from the Birmingham Jail," there has been little discussion on the incarceration experiences of civil rights activists. In her debut book, Zoe Colley does what no historian has done before by following civil rights activists inside the southern jails and prisons to explore their treatment and the different responses that civil rights organizations had to mass arrest and imprisonment. Colley focuses on the shift in philosophical and strategic responses of civil rights protestors from seeing jail as something to be avoided to seeing it as a way to further the cause. Imprisonment became a way to expose the evils of segregation, and highlighted to the rest of American society the injustice of southern racism. By drawing together the narratives of many individuals and organizations, Colley paints a clearer picture of how the incarceration of civil rights activists helped shape the course of the movement. She places imprisonment at the forefront of civil rights history and shows how these new attitudes toward arrest continue to impact contemporary society and shape strategies for civil disobedience."--Publisher's website

An American Negro Gandhi? -- Jail-no-bail! -- From sit-ins to jail-ins -- The middle of the iceberg -- This lousy hole -- You can't jail the revolution