Berkman, Ronald Opening the Gates: The Rise of the Prisoners" Movement. ... The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. ... Still, we have more young black men in prison than we do in college. ... We need a movement, Davis declared, on the scale of the Civil Rights Movement or the anti-lynching campaigns, to dismantle this prison industrial complex that has captured our nation. ... But prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. ...

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As the nation changes however, his dreams do not seem as farfetched as they previously had. ... This internal migration was important not only culturally, but also one, because of its encouragement of black assertiveness, as white politicians viewed blacks as a more powerful political presence; and two, because it stimulated a national movement for civil rights. ... In March of 1941, a black leader named Philip Randolph proposed a new civil rights strategy: a massive march on Washington D.C., in which blacks and sympathetic whites would demand an end to discrimination against blacks in the ...

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• Grade Level: High School