Alexander compares Jim crow back in the days to the mass of incarceration today, which she calls “The New Jim Crow” to prove that Colored people are still being held in captivity against their own mighty will. Jim Crow emerged in the 1880s after slavery and the Civil war. Blacks were segregated from whites. They were not allowed to use the same things. For example, they had a color bathroom and White bathroom. The Black and the White were not allowed to sit together at a movie theater. Even though Blacks were considered free, they were denied the basic rights, such as voting, equal treatments. Even though the 13th amendment says, “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
