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Important people interviewed in film

Angela Davis

Bryan Stevenson

Cory Booker

Van Jones

Henry

Louis Gates Jr.

About the Director

  • born August 24, 1972
  • grew up in Compton, California
  • attended UCLA for English and African American Studies
  • initially interested in journalism, ended up working in public relations
  • first narrative film, I Will Follow, in 2011
  • known for directing Selma (2014), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
  • recently directed Disney's A Wrinkle in Time; first black woman to direct a live-action film with a budget over $100 million

Ava DuVernay

What is ALEC?

  • ALEC - American Legislative Exchange Council
  • made up of politicians and corporations, creates laws
  • known for creating the "Stand Your Ground" law

History of Criminalization

About the film

  • post-Civil War: criminalizing minor crimes, "convict leasing"
  • 1900-1950s: denying blacks right to vote, Jim Crow laws
  • 1960s: Civil Rights movement, Republican party appeals to white, Conservative voters
  • 1970s: Richard Nixon promotes "law and order," creates the War on Drugs
  • 1980s: Ronald Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign, crack cocaine epidemic
  • 1990s: Bill Clinton creates "3 Strikes" law

Directed by Ava DuVernay, 13th focuses on the 13th amendment - what it means, why it was introduced, and how it continues to affect our prison system to this day.

The 13th amendment

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

13th

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