Alan Bean is a white former minister working to uncover injustice and organize black opposition, in the racial controversies surrounding the Tulia 47 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 (12 September 2006). 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". Retrieved 5 January 2008.
  3. ↑ NPR: Relentless Activist Digs into Racial Controversies
  4. ↑ "Jena 6 case caught up in whirlwind of distortion, opportunism". kansascity.com. 29 September 2007. Archived from the original on 15 December 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
  5. ↑ "New Organizing Strategy « Friends of Justice". Archived from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 5 January 2008.


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