Slouching Toward Tyranny : Mass Incarceration, Death Sentences and Racism.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Warren McCleskey: The Man -- The Trial -- The Appeals -- Execution Day -- Coda to McCleskey v. Kemp -- Chapter I. Arrival and Beginnings (1619-1808) -- Chapter 2. Willie Watson, Jr. -- Chapter 3. The Slavery Regime (1662-1865) -- Chapter 4. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- Jefferson and the Other Minority: The Indians -- The Malevolence of Innocence -- Chapter 5. The South and the Death Penalty: 1984 -- The Context -- Chapter 6. The Tyranny of the Majority -- Chapter 7. The Genocide Regime (1830-1890) -- The Cherokee -- Indian Removal -- Indian Disfranchisement of Life and Liberty Continues -- The Plains Indians -- Chapter 8. Reconstruction (1866-1876) -- Report from the Conquered South -- Check and Checkmate -- Congress passes the Civil Rights Act over Johnson's veto -- Ex-Slaves Speak -- Government Intervention -- W.E.B. Du Bois describes the forces at work during Reconstruction: -- The Fifteenth Amendment -- White Flight in the North -- Southern Retrenchment -- Chapter 9. The Regime of Segregation (1883-1953) -- Section I. The Supreme Court Revanchement on Civil Rights -- Frederick Douglass Responds to the Civil Rights Cases Decision -- Ida Wells Fights Back -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- The Social Reality -- Two Significant Political Events -- Spokesmen for the Negro -- From the New Deal to Truman -- Section II. The Black Response to the Segregation Regime -- The Truman Administration -- Section III. Penitentiaries -- The Convict Lease System -- A Note on Tennessee: The Coal Creek Rebellion -- Section IV. The State Farm System -- Brief History of Criminal Justice in Louisiana -- Peonage: Blacks Under James -- Angola: The Plantation Prison -- Huey Long and Angola -- Angola: Brutality Made Public -- Reform at Angola -- Chapter 10. The Beat Goes On.

From Angola, Louisiana to Huntsville, Texas -- Chapter 11. The Second Reconstruction -- The Public Swimming Pool -- School Desegregation -- Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Black Resistance: Little Rock, Greensboro and Nashville -- A Telephone Call and a Presidential Election -- The Freedom Rides -- Perspective from High School -- President Lyndon Johnson -- Presidential Politics -- The Nixon Administration -- The Spring of 1970 -- The War in Vietnam -- The End of the Second Reconstruction -- Chapter 12. The Regime of Disfranchisement I (1980-92) -- McCleskey v. Kemp -- The Code -- Events of 1975-1995 -- The War on Drugs -- The Politics of Killing -- The Sea Change -- Chapter 13. Willie Darden -- Chapter 14. The Regime of Disfranchisement II (2000-2008) -- Section I. The War on Drugs -- Section II. The Courts -- The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals -- Chapter 15. President Barack Obama and the Era of Disfranchisement -- A Possible Administrative Response to the War on Drugs -- Section III. The U.S. Supreme Court -- A Dream Deferred -- Section IV. The State of North Carolina -- Index -- _GoBack.

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