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Chain gang street sweepers, Washington, D. C. 1909 Female convicts in Dar es Salaam chained together by their necks, c. 1890–1927. A chain gang or road gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment.
Gillich was also patron and protector of Kirksey McCord Nix Jr., one of the gang's most notable members. In December 1965, at the age of 22, Nix was caught carrying illegal automatic weapons in Fort Smith, Arkansas. An old friend of his, Juanda Jones, ran a bordello there, and Nix became involved with Jones' adolescent daughter, Sheri LaRa. In ...
Gangs in Little Rock, Arkansas (1 P) Pages in category "Gangs in Arkansas" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect ...
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a movie released in 1932, which depicted the degrading and inhumane treatment on chain gangs in the post–World War I era. Hell's Highway (1932) Prison Farm (1938) Gone with the Wind (1939) scenes of Scarlett O'Hara's leased convicts at work in her lumber mills; Sullivan's Travels (1941) City Without Men (1943)
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in The post 75 years after sentencing Freedom Riders to the chain gang, N.C. tosses out ...
In 1995, Arpaio reinstituted chain gangs. In 1996, he expanded the chain gang concept by instituting female volunteer chain gangs. [56] Female inmates worked seven hours a day (7 a.m. to 2 p.m.), six days a week. He also instituted the world's first all-juvenile volunteer chain gang; volunteers earned high school credit toward a diploma. [57]
Chain gangs, which were introduced in the U.S. in the 19th century and abolished around the time of World War II, were largely reserved for Black people and are widely considered a racist and ...
The term is a metaphor deriving from chain gangs, groups of people, usually prisoners or slaves, bound together with chains or other devices as they work or march.Like a real-life chain gang, the states joined in a chain gang, according to bound obligation, have no option to refuse to follow along with the intent of the others.