African Americans During The 20th Century

During the 20th century African Americans were rapidly entering the prison world for no justified reason other than racial discrimination. According to DuVernay, as time passed by, The United States prison population number began to increase to about 300,000 by the year of 1972 and it became the highest in the world. She also stated that, “Should a little country with 5% of the world’s population having 25% of the world's prisoners? One out of four humans beings with their hands on bar, shackled, in the world are locked up here in the land of the free”. This indicated that a country that contains a small percentage of the human population, turns out to have a greater quantity (one-fourth) due to the number of African Americans incarcerated. The emancipation proclamation was a written document established in 1863 that was suppose to help and secure the liberty of the African Americans moreover this was not the case. When the emancipation was recently passed Africans Americans were free for a time period explained Blackmon, He mentioned that they lived like normal human beings with minimal discrimination and had the citizenship they claimed for about twenty years: however, things changed for them after those twenty years. The South was being affected and African Americans began to get discriminated once again by the whites. During the Civil
Blackmon mentioned that Africans Americans were sent to the prison for crimes they did not commit and were falsely accused. There was twelve prisons, which included two for the women by the 1990’s (Davis 13), Africans Americans were sent to prisons to benefit the government and aid the economy known as the “Prison Industrial Complex” (Davis 12). The Prison Industrial Complex was a form of incarcerating African Americans in order for the government to help aid the economy((Brewer 625). Brewer then explained