Brown Versus Board of Education - The Gideon v. Wayne Wright Decision

The article doesn't explain the Gideon V. Wayne Wright ruling, but it does specifically pick on that decision. So he summarizes the, you know, he's talking about sort of the mass incarceration of poor and black people. Before the case in 1960, 43% of the prison population was poor. Now it's 80%. 660 out of 100,000 black men were in prison in 1960 before Gideon. And now it's over 3000 black white incarceration black versus white proportion is now seven to one.