Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement

by Zoe A. Colley

Book Overview

"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, coeditor of Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 Imprisonment became a badge of honor for many protestors during the civil rights movement. With the popularization of expressions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813060354
• ISBN13: 9780813060354
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"