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

by Zoe A. Colley

Book Overview

"Demonstrates how the 'jail, no bail' tactic moved the movement from a response to a crisis to an event that drew media notice and focused the country's attention on the injustice of segregation."--Choice "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,...

• 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"