Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, by Dan Berger

In this pathbreaking book, Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Showing that the prison was a central focus of the black radical imagination from the 1950s through the 1980s, Berger traces the dynamic and dramatic history of this political struggle. Visit the book page: Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era