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Locking Up Our Own
Author:	James Forman Jr.
Subjects:	Incarceration in the United States African-American studies
Pub Date:	April 2017
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages:	320
Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Lillian Smith Book Award
Isbn:	9780374189976
Oclc:	1242331020
Dewey:	364.97308996073
Congress:	HV9950
Website:	Official website

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America is a 2017 book by James Forman Jr. on support for the 1970s War on Crime from Black leaders in American cities. It won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction^[1] and the Lillian Smith Book Award.^[2]

Further reading

• Web site: Kachka . Boris . Kreizman . Maris . Spring Preview: Letterman, Strout, and 8 More Books We Can't Wait to Read . Vulture . 2017-03-21 . en-us . 2020-07-30 . mdy-all .
• News: Lartey . Jamiles . 'Demolish that lie': James Forman Jr takes on Black Lives Matter backlash . . 2017-04-29 . en-GB . 0261-3077 . mdy-all .
• Web site: Rev. of Locking Up Our Own . . 2017-02-20 . en . 2020-07-30 . mdy-all .
• Web site: Rev. of Locking Up Our Own . . 2017-01-09 . en . 2020-07-30 . mdy-all .
• News: Senior . Jennifer . 'Locking Up Our Own,' What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men . . 2017-04-11 . en-US . 0362-4331 . mdy-all .
• Web site: Weaver . Vesla M. . The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration . . 2017-10-24 . en . 2020-07-30 . mdy-all .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). pulitzer.org. November 12, 2020.
2. Web site: Professors from Yale, Duke universities named Lillian Smith Book Award winners. news.uga.edu. June 22, 2018. November 12, 2020.