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This is a board that contains photographs that I have collected and/or simply like depicting the history of black prisoners in the U.S.
Women Prisoners at Parchman Farm (Mississippi Penitentiary) - 1930s
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"Angola Hoers" - Female Prisoners were housed at Angola Prison alongside the men.
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Bartow County State Highway Prisoners
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by Taryn Simon for her project "The Innocents" about men who were exonerated from prison after several years of incarceration.
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by Taryn Simon for her project "The Innocents" documenting wrongfully incarcerated people who were exonerated from prison after years.
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This is a mug shot of George Stinney. The youngest person ever executed in the U.S. in the 20th century. He was falsely accused and killed.
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This is a photo of a protester supporting Joan Little in 1975.
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Mugshot from Arkansas State Prison (1915-1937) - found & printed by Bruce Jackson.
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This is a mug shot that is part of the New Orleans City Archives. These date from the turn of the 20th century into the 1930s.
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This is a mug shot which is part of the New Orleans City Archives dating from the turn of the 20th century into the 1930s.
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This is a civil rights era mug shot. It shows the role that civil disobedience played in the black freedom movement.
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Photograph from Arkansas State Prison (1915-1937). Found and printed by Bruce Jackson.
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A wire photo of Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Abernathy in jail in Albany, Georgia in 1964.
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A famous photograph by Danny Lyon depicting a group of women being held for protesting the inability to use a library in the South.
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This is a wire photograph from 1937 showing a black prisoner who is part of a chain gang feeding a dog.
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This is a newswire photo of Attica Prisoners talking to observers during the 1971 rebellion.
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This is a famous photograph capturing prisoners during the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion.
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This is a famous photograph from the Detroit Publishing Collection titled "A Southern Chain Gang (1900).:
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Black prisoners in Florida in 1915 playing baseball on the anonymous photographer's lawn.
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