Sponsored by the National Lawyer's Guild and Muslim Law Student Association, this program will feature Donald F. Tibbs, JD/Phd of Drexel University Law School and author of the book From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union. The book is a legal history of how the social and cultural history of the Black Power era connects to the legal history of the Prisoner’s Rights Movement; and what the Supreme Court did to eviscerate both.
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8/29/2013
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When:
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8/29/2013
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Where:
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Building 52 Room 505 4340 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, District of Columbia 20008 United States
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Contact:
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William Fenwick
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
UDC
– David A. Clarke School of Law; 4340 Connecticut Ave, Bldg. 52, Room 505 5pm
Sponsored by
the National Lawyer's Guild and Muslim Law Student Association, this program
will feature Donald F. Tibbs, JD/Phd of Drexel University Law School and author
of the book From Black Power to Prison Power: The Making of Jones v. North
Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union. The book is a legal history of how the social
and cultural history of the Black Power era connects to the legal history of the
Prisoner’s Rights Movement; and what the Supreme Court did to eviscerate
both.
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. http://works.bepress.com/donald_tibbs/4
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