Alan Bean (activist)

Alan Bean a mild mannered white former minister working to uncover injustice and organize black opposition, in the racial controversies surrounding the Tulia 46 drug sting[1] [2] in Tulia, Texas and the Jena Six controversy in Jena, Louisiana.[3][4] In 1999, Dr. Alan Bean founded the organization, Friends of Justice, an alliance of community members to advocate for criminal justice reform.[5]

References

  1. ^ Nate Blakeslee. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town. New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 1-58648-454-0. 
  2. ^ "Tulia Travesty Covered Up By Texas Prosecutors and Courts". http://www.forejustice.org/wc/tulia_travesty.htm. Retrieved 5 January 2008. 
  3. ^ NPR: Relentless Activist Digs into Racial Controversies
  4. ^ "www.kansascity.com". Archived from the original on 15 December 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071215010934/http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/296701.html. Retrieved 5 January 2008. 
  5. ^ New Organizing Strategy « Friends of Justice

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