Jim Crow
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages.
Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms and restaurants for whites and blacks. The U.S. military was also segregated. These Jim Crow Laws were separate from the 1800-66 Black Codes, which had also restricted the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Generally, the remaining Jim Crow laws were overruled by the Civil Rights Act of 1964[1] and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Readings for third session
The topic of the next session is "How Race and Class Intersect with the Prison Industrial Complex."
Everyone who attended this past Saturday's session should have gotten a copy of the comic called "Prisoners of the War on Drugs."
The introduction to Michelle Alexander's new book called the "New Jim Crow." Please make sure that you are able to read this chapter as it will provide a good foundation for our next session.
This is a powerful article about the death penalty that I think will be of interest to everyone and relates directly to what we will be discussing.
This is a fact sheet called "How is the Criminal Justice System Racist." It comes from a toolkit called "Defending Justice."
Everyone who attended this past Saturday's session should have gotten a copy of the comic called "Prisoners of the War on Drugs."
The introduction to Michelle Alexander's new book called the "New Jim Crow." Please make sure that you are able to read this chapter as it will provide a good foundation for our next session.
This is a powerful article about the death penalty that I think will be of interest to everyone and relates directly to what we will be discussing.
This is a fact sheet called "How is the Criminal Justice System Racist." It comes from a toolkit called "Defending Justice."
Illinois Community Justice Project
We're developing a new resource that is going to make our work stronger. It’s an online site that will allow us to share our efforts, and to harness each other’s good work. This site will be transparent, participatory, and collective. And that’s why we’re writing for your help.
We’d like you to help us identify and archive key knowledge about the Illinois justice system. By collecting this knowledge in one online place, we hope to generate shared understandings, new initiatives, and more possibilities to connect our vital efforts.
Please take a moment to read through this call, and to think through the materials that have helped to inform your work. Think about materials that you would be willing to share with other folks working on justice issues.
Submissions will become a part of the wiki-site we are developing, and will be a significant resource for activists, community members, students, teachers, and movement workers across Illinois NOW and for years to come. No submissions are too old or too new. We welcome resources from other organizations and websites, from personal memories, and from institutional archives. Once it’s fully developed, this site will also have the capacity for posting "needs and wants" and for calls to immediate action.
We're developing a new resource that is going to make our work stronger. It’s an online site that will allow us to share our efforts, and to harness each other’s good work. This site will be transparent, participatory, and collective. And that’s why we’re writing for your help.
We’d like you to help us identify and archive key knowledge about the Illinois justice system. By collecting this knowledge in one online place, we hope to generate shared understandings, new initiatives, and more possibilities to connect our vital efforts.
Please take a moment to read through this call, and to think through the materials that have helped to inform your work. Think about materials that you would be willing to share with other folks working on justice issues.
Submissions will become a part of the wiki-site we are developing, and will be a significant resource for activists, community members, students, teachers, and movement workers across Illinois NOW and for years to come. No submissions are too old or too new. We welcome resources from other organizations and websites, from personal memories, and from institutional archives. Once it’s fully developed, this site will also have the capacity for posting "needs and wants" and for calls to immediate action.
Any One of Us: Words from Prison in Chicago
"Any One of Us: Words from Prison"
A Play By Eve Ensler
To benefit the Lesbian Leadership Council's Lavender Fund
and POW-WOW's Juvenile Justice/Crisis Care programs
Click image above to view full-size flyer |
Friday, March 12, 2010
Pre-reception 6-7 p.m.
Performance 7:15-9 p.m.
Jacob Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
700 E. Oakwood Blvd. (Bronzeville)
Chicago
Note: All are welcome to attend this event.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Photos and audio from second session
This weekend's meeting was amazing! We covered the basic dimensions of how the prison-industrial complex works, what it needs to continue operating, what communities it impacts, and how it impacts those communities. Here's some photos from the workshop, along with audio of the entire event. We're working on getting folks to share their notes and thoughts from the event, and that should be up in the next few days. Take a listen, it's well worth it.
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