{"value"=>"<p>This scrapbook (1929-1965) is about crime and criminals and contains clippings and ephemera from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage focuses on crimes committed both by and against African Americans, primarily homicides, rapes, and robberies. The clippings often report on the trials and sentencing of the accused, and also discuss the impact of all-white juries. Additionally, the clippings cover the racial makeup of prisons across the country, how poverty, lack of education, and lack of police presence are the cause of crime in African American communities, rising juvenile delinquency, and several studies that show there is more crime committed by white individuals than by African Americans. The prominent cases covered include the killing of Roy Hudson, member of a chain gang, the conviction of Jarvis Catoe, an African American serial killer, and the murder of two innocent African Americans by a retired police officer in Yonkers, New York.</p>"}