Slouching toward tyranny : mass incarceration, death sentences and racism / Joseph B. Ingle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingle, Joseph B. (Joseph Burton), 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States--History.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Discrimination in capital punishment--United States--History.

Discrimination in capital punishment.

Race discrimination--United States--History.

Race discrimination.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After working with death-row inmates in the killing ground of the South, where he had lost over twenty people to the executioner since 1979, Rev. Ingle made his way to Harvard University on a Merrill Fellowship where he began a twenty-year process of reading, writing and continued work with the condemned. Here, he began to comprehend what he had been experiencing in the hallowed United States, foremost advocate of democratic government and a champion of human rights throughout the world. Despite all our talk about independence and freedom of speech, he found it difficult to even face the contradictions he perceived. and he began to ask whether, in fact, we have to consider the government of our country in terms of tyranny. Walk with him through what he has experienced, and see if what you think yourself.Joseph Ingle has been ministering to prison inmates on death row in the Southeastern United States for many years, and his observations have led him to conclusions that, in fact, incriminate society at large for the way we treat those on the losing end of life's gamble.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62894-122-7

OCLC:

909898486