CSPAN3 Lectures In History May 1, 2016
Lets get started. Pick up on the conversation we were having last time about civil rights and the black power movement. The second reconstruction. In we think about that relation to what now is called mass incarceration. Were going to do three big things today. Talk about what mass incarceration is. Complicate some of the ways it is often talked about. We will talk about where it came from and how we ended up with the worlds biggest prison system. What that has to do with this time. The 1960s and 1970s and the second reconstruction. We will think about the role and people in prison formerly in...