The Inward and the Outward Face of Civil Disobedience

The way black activists talked about going to jail had much more to do with amplifying the spaces that were a their sights of protest. The court room in the jail cell could also become sights of protest, by virtue of you being dragged through them,. You could use it to build solidarity. It was not purely extra legal, but a system of violence that linked what we might think of his vigilantism all the way through e the kind of formal institutions of law and order. And so for them to willingly go to jail, it was often a way of signalling tthey could not be held in fear by thi system. Adan: They didn't need to wait on body else to liberate