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Sacramento Press / Professor Michelle Alexander and the New Jim Crow American Social Justice Tour Will Stop in Sacramento

Sacramento Press / Professor Michelle Alexander and the New Jim Crow American Social Justice Tour Will Stop in Sacramento

Professor Michelle Alexander and the New Jim Crow American Social Justice Tour Will Stop in Sacramento

by Faye Kennedy, published on April 12, 2011 at 11:02AM

http://www.newjimcrow.com/Professor Michelle Alexander (Image by: faye)

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 from 6:30pm 8:00pm, the Sacramento Chapter of All of Us or None, Black United Fund of Sacramento Valley and the Sacramento Area Black Caucus (SABC) will co-sponsor and host noted author and legal scholar, Professor Michelle Alexander’s visit to Sacramento. The event will be held at the historic Women’s Civic Improvement Center, 3555 3rd Ave., Sacramento, CA. 95817.

Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate and legal scholar. She is also the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2010). See http://www.newjimcrow.com. The book is a bold challenge to the widespread belief that our nation has finally "triumphed over race" with the election of Barack Obama. Jim Crow