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Control # 1 hbl99078408
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20200831163324.0
Fixed Data 8 190306t20192019nyu 001 0aeng
LC Card 10    $a2018045958
Tag 19 19    $a1084486507$a1088544272
ISBN 20    $a9780802129086$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $a0802129080$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $z9780802146908$q(electronic bk.)
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LC Call 50 00 $aHV6248.W765$bA3 2019
ME:Pers Name 100 $aWoodfox, Albert,$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aSolitary :$bunbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope /$cAlbert Woodfox ; with Leslie George.
Edition 250    $aFirst Grove Atlantic Hardcover Edition.
Edition 250    $aFirst edition.
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bGrove Press,$c2019.
Tag 264 264  4 $cÃ2019
Phys Descrpt 300    $axi, 433 pages ;$c25 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Abstract 520    $a"[This] is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement--in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana--for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge from his odyssey within America's prison and judicial systems with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact is a triumph of the human spirit, and makes his book a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world. Arrested often as a teenager in New Orleans, Albert was behind bars in his early twenties when he was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a 50-year sentence in Angola prison in Louisiana for armed robbery when on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were immediately accused of the crime and put in solitary confinement by the warden. Without a shred of actual evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice that gave them life sentences in solitary. Decades passed before Albert gained a lawyer of consequence; even so, sixteen more years and multiple appeals were needed before he was finally released in February 2016. Remarkably self-aware that anger or bitterness would have destroyed him in solitary confinement, sustained by the shared solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the grinding inhumanity and corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Albert survived to give us Solitary, a chronicle of rare power and humanity that proves the better spirits of our nature can thrive against any odds." --Dust jacket.
Note:Content 505 $aIn the beginning -- 1960s. The High Steppers ; Car chase ; Angola, 1960s ; Prison days ; Parole and back again ; Stickup artist ; Tony's Green Room ; Escape -- 1970s. Meeting the Black Panther Party ; What is the Party? ; NYC prison riot ; Hostages ; Angola, 1971 ; Herman Wallace ; April 17, 1972 ; CCR ; King arrives ; CCR wars ; My trial, 1973 ; Herrnan's trial, 1974 ; King is set up ; Gary Tyler 1 ; Food slots ; My greatest achievement ; Strip search battle -- 1980s. "I got you" ; Sick call ; The shakedown and the sham of the reclass board ; Comrades ; Contact visit ; Maturity -- 1990s. Justice delayed is justice denied ; My greatest loss ; Preparing for my trial ; Amite City ; The crusaders ; My trial, 1998 ; Back to Angola -- 2000-2010. We stand together ; Hidden evidence ; King leaves the belly of the beast ; Torture at Camp J ; Cruel and unusual ; "Are you still sane?" ; 2008 ; Never apart -- 2011-2016. Torture ; Forty years ; Man of steel ; The ends of justice ; Theories ; The struggles continues ; A plea for freedom, not justice.
Note:General 500    $aIncludes index
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aWoodfox, Albert.
Subj:Corp 610 20 $aLouisiana State Penitentiary.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPrisoners$zLouisiana$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aEx-convicts$zLouisiana$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAfrican American political activists$zLouisiana$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSolitary confinement.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aCrime and race$zLouisiana.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aJudicial error$zUnited States.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aFalse imprisonment$zUnited States$vPersonal narratives.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aTrials (False imprisonment)$zUnited States.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAfrican American prisoners$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMinorities$xLegal status, laws, etc$zLouisiana.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aLegal ethics$zUnited States.
Genre/Form 655  7 $aAutobiographies.$2lcgft
AE:Pers Name 700 $aGeorge, Leslie,$eauthor.