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Criminal Justice Reform & Resistance in the Civil Rights Era and Beyond
Author: Say Burgin, Dickinson College
Comment: Simon Balto, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This is an online event.
Say Burgin's work re-examines the relationship between civil rights activists and the system of cash bail in the 1960s. Historians have largely considered cash bail as a legal hassle, an obstacle that naturally arose as a consequence of civil disobedience. Aside from the “jail, no bail” practice of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), little attention has been paid to the questions of how activists critiqued and organized around bail. Yet, as Burgin's paper shows, SNCC innovated a range of strategies and understood bail as a very specific mechanism of racialized state repression.
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