By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior National Correspondent The racial makeup of prison populations in America changed almost overnight after the Civil War, a new report has revealed. In Tennessee, during slavery less than 5 percent of the prisoners were Black. In 1866, after emancipation, that number jumped to 52 percent. And by 1891 it […]
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