[The 90’s raw: Mount Pleasant riot – Alexa Freeman interview]

American Way, Eddie Becker, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Outside Agitators, Politics, THE 90's

Raw footage shot for the award-winning series The 90’s. This tape features footage of Rev. Jesse Jackson on the streets of Washington, D.C. during the May 1991 Washington D.C. riot, also called the Mount Pleasant riot. It is followed by an interview with lawyer Alexa Freeman of the ACLU National Prison Project about incarcerated women.