1. Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness
... system in public accommodations, employment, voting, education, and federally financed activities. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, an arguably more significant achievement, rendered illegal numerous discriminatory barriers to effective political participation by African-Americans and mandated federal review of all new voting regulations so that it would be possible to determine whether their use would perpetuate voting discrimination. In the ... Poll sent out a communiqué saying that 64 percent of those polled thought that drugs was the most significant issue in the U.S. This was the re...
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