Name: __________________________________
Date: ______________________
13th Movie Guide
Directions: as you watch the film, answer the following questions.
1. The statistics say that the United States is home to 5% of the world’s population, but _________ of
the world’s prisoners.
2. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution makes it unconstitutional for someone to
________________________________, but there are exceptions, including ____________________.
3. Slavery was an ________________________ system.
4. After the Civil War, _________________________________ were arrested en masse. They were
arrested for extremely __________________ crimes, like loitering or vagrancy.
5. _________________________________ was the first major blockbuster film.
6. The ritual of _______________________________________ was invented in this film. The
__________________________ had a tremendous burst of popularity after the film’s release, and with
it, came another wave of terrorism.
7. Mobs carried out lynchings. African Americans moving to other cities were not looking for economic
opportunities; they were ____________________from terror.
8. The Chicago boy ______________________________was violently killed after he allegedly whistled
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at a white woman.
9. After it became unacceptable to engage in open terrorism, then if shifted to legal segregation and
__________________________ laws. These laws relegated African Americans to a permanent
second-class status.
10. Civil Rights activists began to be portrayed in the media as __________________________.
11. Civil rights activists voluntarily defined a movement around ______________________________.
12. Crime was increasing at the same time as the civil rights era. It became very easy to politicians to
say that ________________________________was contributing to rising crime rates.
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13. The prison population was flat for many decades, but that changed in the _____________. The era
since then has been defined by the term “mass incarceration.”
14. When Nixon talked about a war on crime, he was really referring to the
_________________________ movements of the day, anti-war movements, and women’s liberation
and gay liberation.
15. The “war on drugs” gave birth to this era where we decided to deal with drug addiction and drug
dependency as a _____________________ issue rather than a ________________ issue.
16. “Public enemy number one” was ________________________.
17. Nixon drew many poor and working class whites into the ___________________________.
18. The modern war on drugs was declared by Ronald Regan in _______________.
19. Nancy Regan’s slogan against drug use was “______________________________.”
20. In the 1980s, a new drug came along: ____________________________.
21. ________________ was largely an inner-city issue while _________________ was largely a
suburban issue.
22. Mandatory sentencing for the drug established the same amount of time in prison for one ounce of
crack cocaine that you get for _______________ ounces of powdered cocaine. This led to black and
Latinos getting much longer sentences than whites.
23. Regan’s campaign strategist Lee Atwater was caught on tape explaining the
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________________________________, saying “forced-bussing” “states rights” and “cutting taxes”
which were coded ways of establishing that they would hurt blacks worse than whites.
24. Black people are _________________________ in news as criminals on television, meaning that
they were shown as criminals more times than is accurate based on FBI statistics.
25. The Central Park Jogger case they put ____________ innocent teens in prison because of public
pressure. ____________________________ wanted to give the kids the death penalty. DNA evidence
proved that they were all innocent after they had been in prison for 6-11 years.
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26. In our history of interracial rape, the record is far more marked by ________________ rape against
___________________ women than of black men against white women.
27. The ___________________________________________ says that when you commit a third
violent crime, that person is mandated to prison for life.
28. ________% of the elected prosecutors in the country are white.
29. The 1994 Federal ___________ Bill was responsible for a massive expansion of the prison system.
30. Bill Clinton now admits that the 1994 bill was a ___________________.
31. ____________________ was considered one of the most dangerous people in America by the FBI.
32. The ____________________________ were considered the greatest internal threat to American
democracy. The head of this group was killed by police in Chicago.
33. 17-year-old _______________________________ was killed by George Zimmerman. The police
could not arrest Zimmerman because of the _______________________________________ law,
which says that you can kill someone if you feel threatened.
34. ALEC is a ___________________________________________that gives corporations a huge say
in our lawmaking. I in 4 state legislators are members of ALEC.
35. ______________________ has been the largest retailer of bullets in the world.
36. Corrections Corporation of America is a private _________________ corporation. The CCC has
played a role within ALEC to propose mandatory minimums and three-strikes policy. These policies
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generated a profit.
37. SB1070 pushed a law that gave police the right to stop anyone they thought looked like an
__________________________. This law filled immigration detention facilities.
38. “Immigration detention facilities are the same thing as __________________with a different name.”
39. “If you’re in the prison business, you don’t want ___________________.”
40. Aramark food services have been accused of having ____________________ in their prison foods
in more than one state.
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41. Inmates work for private corporations such as:
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________.
42. “The criminal justice system treats you better if you’re rich and ____________________ than if you’re
poor and _______________________.”
43. Kalief Browder didn’t take a plea deal because he felt it wasn’t right, and because he didn’t do it. He
says if he would have pled guilty, no one would have heard his story, and he would have been just another
criminal. He hanged himself two years after he was released. He was ______________ years old.
44. If you have been convicted of a felony, you can’t get _______________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________.
45. Nearly ________% of the black male population in Alabama has permanently lost the right to vote as
the result of a criminal conviction.
46. President Obama was the first sitting president to ever visit a __________________.
47. Which politician describes the “good old days” when protesters were carried out on stretchers?
____________________________________.
48. The lifetime likelihood of imprisonment for white men is 1 in ______. For black males, it is 1 in _____.
49. While black men are 6.5% of the population, they make up _________% of the prison population.
50. “Large scale riots are the result of police _____________________.”
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51. “It wasn’t until things were made _____________________ in the civil rights movement that we really
say folks come out and being shocked into movement.”
52. The willingness of Emmett Till’s mother to have an __________________________ funeral helped
spur the Civil Rights Movement.
53. What was Eric Garner saying while the police were arresting him? “___________________________”
54. “Police violence isn’t the problem itself. It is a reflection of a much larger, brutal system of racial and
social control known as ________________________________________________.”
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