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Author Tibbs, Donald F

Title From Black Power to Prison Power : the Making of Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union
Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (279 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Foundations; 1 At the Q; 2 Negroes with Guns; 3 The Trial of Huey P. Newton; Part II Formations; 4 Souls on Ice; 5 A Crisis Erupts; 6 From a Spark to a Raging Fire; Part III Litigations; 7 Coalitions; 8 We Have a Union!; 9 Won and Appealed; 10 Anatomy of a Decision; E pilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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
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Subject Prisoners -- Political activity -- North Carolina
Convict labor -- North Carolina
Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
History of the Americas -- USA.
Prisons -- USA.
Civil rights & citizenship -- USA.
Legal history -- USA.
History.
Convict labor
Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Prisoners -- Political activity
North Carolina
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137013064
1137013060
1283440601
9781283440608