The Book So Embarrassing That An Alabama Prison Banned It
Last year, a legal aid lawyer sent to an incarcerated client a copy of Slavery by Another Name, "Douglas Blackmon's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of how the South instituted a form of de-facto slavery by mass arresting black men on nonsense charges and 'selling' them to plantations, turpentine farms and other places of back-breaking labor." Prison officials thought the book "too dangerous" to have around. Orlando Sentinel 02/20/12

Posted February 22, 2012 12:11 AM