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The film begins with the idea that 25 percent of the people in the world who are incarcerated are incarcerated in the U.S. Although the U.S. has just 5% of the worlds population. "13th" charts the explosive growth in Americas prison population; in 1970, there were about 200,000 prisoners; today, the prison population is more than 2 million. The documentary touches on chattel slavery; D. W. Griffiths film "The Birth of a Nation"; Emmett Till; the civil rights movement; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Richard M. Nixon; and Ronald Reagans declaration of the war on drugs and much more.
Melina Abdullah
Self - Chair, Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
Michelle Alexander
Self - Educator and Author, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Cory Booker
Self - U.S. Senator (D) New Jersey
Dolores Canales
Self - Formerly Incarcerated Activist
Gina Clayton
Self - Attorney and Founder, Essie Justice Group
Jelani Cobb
Self - Professor of African-American Studies, University of Connecticut
Malkia Cyril
Self - Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice
Angela Davis
Self - Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
Craig DeRoche
Self - Formerly Incarcerated Activist
David Dinkins
Self - 106th Mayor of New York City (D)
Baz Dreisinger
Self - Educator and Author, Incarceration Nations
Kevin Gannon
Self - Professor of History, Grandview University
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Self - Professor of History, Harvard University
Marie Gottschalk
Self - Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Newt Gingrich
Self - 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate
Lisa Graves
Self - Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy
Cory Greene
Self - Formerly Incarcerated Activist
John Hagan
Self - Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University
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