... films setting. The murders and Carters conviction and imprisonment took place in the turbulent times of the late sixties when blacks were fighting for their civil rights. With so much social unrest at this time it is not hard to see that there would be tremendous feelings of disenfranchisement among the black communities. ... to the public, which spawned many theories, such as the popular "Riff-Raff" theory. This theory took into account the fact that many black men were not working or seemed not to be working in the mainstream economy, thus meaning that those who were not working in the ...

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