{"id":774,"date":"2014-07-10T17:12:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lestweforgetmu.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:14:13","slug":"the-new-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/10\/the-new-jim-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Jim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The New Jim Crow \u2013 Jim Crow Still Exists In America<\/h2>\n<p>Under Jim Crow laws, black Americans were relegated to a subordinate status for decades. Things like literacy tests for voters and laws designed to prevent blacks from serving on juries were commonplace in nearly a dozen Southern states.<\/p>\n<p>In her book\u00a0<a title=\"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?SessionId=181-7695169-0883959&amp;SubscriptionId=D68HUNXKLHS4J&amp;AssociateTag=straforonline-20&amp;ASIN.1=1595586431&amp;Quantity.1=1&amp;adid=09WPP8V9T4B9RAZTKPEE&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;OfferListingId.1=aRDr0ZgSCUNxVuGCCJKMMpua%252FU1Gi%252BqLiXKg2Y%252FeqdMl4pV0BZs0xH4wSPSfZKVoJICteyc8qdZjvmpdt0OHuyuJlZU%252B52JNc%252Bicd%252BY1r0IqyTer2pDPYg%253D%253D&amp;submit.add.x=47&amp;submit.add.y=13\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/strong><\/a>, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jim Crow \u2013 Jim Crow Still Exists In America Under Jim Crow laws, black Americans were relegated to a subordinate status for decades. Things like literacy tests for voters and laws designed to prevent blacks from serving on juries were commonplace in nearly a dozen Southern states. In her book\u00a0The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes that many of the gains of the civil rights movement have been undermined by the mass incarceration of black Americans in the war on drugs. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jim-crow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lwfsm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}