Ten books about Martin Luther King, Jr's legacy

From The ReadDown, one of ten essential nonfiction books to shed light on these decades after Dr. King’s life, the Civil Rights movement, and how his legacy has shaped the past half-century:

American Prison

In 2014, award-winning investigative journalist Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. He soon realized that private prisons became entrenched in the South as part of a systemic effort to keep the African-American labor force in place in the aftermath of slavery.

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--Marshal Zeringue