FROM BLACK POWER TO PRISON POWER
Subtitle: the making of Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union
By: By Donald F. Tibbs
Series: Contemporary Black History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780230340169
Subjects: LAW / Civil Rights; History; Trials, litigation; North Carolina. Dept. of Correction; HISTORY / Social History; Freedom of association; Law and legislation; North Carolina; African American prisoners; N.C. Prisoners' Labor Union; Black power; Labor unions; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; Legal status, laws; LAW / Legal History
Description: "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. It thus rekindles the debate over the triumphs and troubles associated with the use of Black Power as a platform for influencing legal policy and effecting change for inmates. While the ideology of the prison rights movement was complex, it rested on the underlying principle that the right to organize, and engage in political dissidence, was not only a First Amendment right guaranteed to free blacks, but one that should be explicitly guaranteed to captive blacks--a point too often overlooked in previous analyses. Ultimately, this seminal case study not only illuminates the history of Black Power but that of the broader prisoners' rights movement as well"--