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The New Jim Crow Lesson Plan

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Michelle Alexander is a highly respected civil rights lawyer, advocate, professor, and legal scholar. Alexander received her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and her law degree from Stanford University. After law school, she worked as a clerk for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. After that, Alexander worked as the director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California. In that role, she was in charge of grassroots organizing, litigation, and more. During this time, she became passionate about exposing racial injustice. She headed up the “DWB Campaign,”...

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