VOCABULARY
The enforced separation of groups, most commonly based on race, gender, or ethnicity.
Segregation
“Just say no.”
Nancy Reagan
The country with the highest incarceration rate.
United States
The state of being confined in prison or jail.
Incarceration
“In many ways, the so-called war on drugs was a war on communities of color, a war on Black communities, a war on Latino communities.”
Angela Davis
Director, producer, writer, and distributor who focuses on the African American experience.
Ava DuVernay
A series of government-led campaigns aimed at reducing the production, distribution, and use of illegal drugs.
War on Drugs
“We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about.”
Malcolm X
A film that depicted the Civil War through a white lens, contributing to the rebirth of the KKK.
Birth of a Nation
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
13th Amendment
“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nixon's political approach aimed at attracting white, traditionally Democratic voters to the Republican Party. He spoke on issues like states' rights and "law and order" without using overtly racist language to appeal to the lower and working classes.
Southern Strategy