On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
Thus Negroes came to look upon courts as instruments of injustice and oppression, and upon those convicted in them as martyrs and victims.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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In his analysis of the post-Reconstruction South, Du Bois describes how Black communities viewed the judicial system.
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