Not really. There was segregation still in the early 60s. Martin LK didn't make an appearance until his speech in 1963 and black people got the right to vote in 1965. Yet again, black people were still heavily judged and they were blamed for a lot of mistakes other people would make. So no. The white prison population was not higher.
The Ottoman Empire contributed indirectly to the start of World War I by Balkan calls for independence, which contributed to instability in the region.