Post by Liana Kerzner: Important read. It's the origins of the mass incarceration problem in US prisons. - Upcarta

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Liana Kerzner @redlianak · May 19, 2023

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Important read. It's the origins of the mass incarceration problem in US prisons.

Tweet May 18, 2023

On this day in 1896, the U.S Supreme Court delivered its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, establishing the “separate but equal” doctrine and authorizing discrimination by states. This marked the formal beginning of Jim Crow Laws. THREAD twitter.com/

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