You Are Part of the World

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This print was created by Chicago-based artist Billy Dee for the "Art Against Incarceration" Show, sponsored by Project NIA. He is also the illustrator behind the Prison Industrial Complex.

In Swahili, NIA means "with purpose." Project NIA’s mission is to dramatically reduce the reliance on arrest, detention, and incarceration for addressing youth crime and to instead promote the use of restorative and transformative practices, a concept that relies on community-based alternatives.

What does the title of this illustration mean to you, personally?

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

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Important terms to know:

  1. Black Codes
  2. Carpetbagger
  3. 1866 Civil Rights Act
  4. 1875 Civil Rights Act
  5. Election of 1876
  6. "Forty Acres and a Mule"
  7. Freedmen's Bureau
  8. impeach
  9. Ku Klux Klan
  10. Presidential Reconstruction
  11. Radical Reconstruction
  12. Sea Islands (Georgia)
  13. sharecropping
  14. "Solid South"
  15. 14th Amendment
  16. 15th Amendment