I mean when I became a public defender in D.C. How common was that?įORMAN JR.: It was more common than I certainly would have expected. When he was sentenced, he was dispatched with a denunciation from the bench that he not only had violated the law he had undermined the entire civil rights movement. SIEGEL: You start your book with an observation at the trial of a young man who's charged with possessing a handgun and a very small quantity of marijuana. Professor Foreman, thanks for joining us. tells the story of how blacks in law enforcement, people who had battled for the right to serve as police and judges as well as politicians, made the war on drugs very much their own. In his new book, "Locking Up Our Own," James Forman Jr. His father was head of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He's also the son of a famous black civil rights leader. Foreman is a law professor at Yale who used to be a public defender in Washington, D.C. may change the way you think about the mass incarceration of African-Americans on drug charges.
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