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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/chocolate-city/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/chocolate-city/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | ||
Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between the U.S.’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. | Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between the U.S.’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. | ||
=====Convict Leasing===== | |||
[https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-convict-leasing/ by EJI 11/1/13] | |||
After the Civil War, slavery persisted in the form of convict leasing, a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations. While states profited, prisoners earned no pay and faced inhumane, dangerous, and often deadly work conditions. Thousands of Black people were forced into what authors have termed “slavery by another name” until the 1930s. | |||
