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Mass Incarceration

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Black Prisons in Southern States - The Black Codes

African-American men were voting, running for political office. Some had tremendous success in business and in politics. But this moment of prosperity wouldn't last. Southern states began passing new laws to end Black economic and political progress. The Jim Crow laws essentially served the same function as the Black Codes.

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