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SAY THE NAMES
These are the HUMAN BEINGS who have perished in Mississippi prisons over the last two months
In saying the names, they become REAL, they were REAL HUMAN BEINGS who died in our prisons on our watch
#Solidarity #Parchman #Mississippi
These are the HUMAN BEINGS who have perished in Mississippi prisons over the last two months
In saying the names, they become REAL, they were REAL HUMAN BEINGS who died in our prisons on our watch
#Solidarity #Parchman #Mississippi
I want to hold up the work of these folks (and anyone else) working on the ground to help address the Prison Crisis in Mississippi
@PrisonReformMS
@UniteThePoor
@lumumbasvision
@RocNation
@REFORM
@MississippiRise
Much love to all of you!!!!!! #Solidarity from #Michigan
@PrisonReformMS
@UniteThePoor
@lumumbasvision
@RocNation
@REFORM
@MississippiRise
Much love to all of you!!!!!! #Solidarity from #Michigan
@PrisonReformMS @UniteThePoor @lumumbasvision @RocNation @REFORM @MississippiRise Where is your coverage of this ongoing human rights crisis?
@MSNBC
@FoxNews
@CNN
@ABC
@NBCNews
@CBSNews
@NewsHour
I am not talking about web content, I am talking about NETWORK coverage #Parchman #Mississippi
@MSNBC
@FoxNews
@CNN
@ABC
@NBCNews
@CBSNews
@NewsHour
I am not talking about web content, I am talking about NETWORK coverage #Parchman #Mississippi
As we're talking about #Parchman, let's discuss the history of the prison and the current conditions. There are no good prisons, AND Parchman has a very specific history. That history is important, as is understanding the bedrock of the Mississippi prison system specifically
Parchman was started as a massively profitable convict leasing enterprise at the dawn of the 20th Century. This has been covered in the book Worse Than Slavery (discussed here by the NYT) nytimes.com/1996/04/28/boo…
Parchman was founded in 1901 as a *reform* to improve the convict leasing system at the time. In 1918 the prison had a *net revenue of 825,000* (or approximately an $800 profit per prisoner. $825,000 was a lot of money in 1918. pbs.org/newshour/arts/…
Hunter Gray, a Civil Rights leader in JXN, MS, in the early 1960s, died earlier this week. He is most famously known for taking part in the 1963 Woolworth sit-in in JXN, which yielded this iconic photo. Gray is sitting at the counter, on the left. #Mississippi #NonViolence
In 2015 Gray wrote an account of the day for the @guardian: "That’s me in the picture. . . . They cut my face with sharp brass knuckles; someone cut the back of my head with the jagged edge of a broken sugar container. There was a good deal of blood." theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
The picture of course went instantly everywhere. “Friends across the country called to say they had seen it, and we got letters from people all over the world.”
The image’s ongoing value, said Gray, was in reinforcing the idea that “change comes” from “grass roots people.”
The image’s ongoing value, said Gray, was in reinforcing the idea that “change comes” from “grass roots people.”
