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From the Bottom of the Heap

The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King

By: Robert Hillary King

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From the Bottom of the Heap

The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King

By: Robert Hillary King

In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He became a member of the Black Panther Party while in Angola State Penitentiary, successfully organizing prisoners to improve conditions. In return, prison authorities beat him, starved him, and gave him life without parole after framing him for a second crime. He was thrown into solitary confinement, where he remained in a six-by-nine-foot cell for 29 years as one of the Angola 3. In 2001, the state grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free. This is his story. It begins at the beginning: born black, born poor, born in Louisiana in 1942, King journeyed to Chicago as a hobo at the age of 15. He married and had a child, and briefly pursued a semi-pro boxing career to help provide for his family. Just a teenager when he entered the Louisiana penal system for the first time, King tells of his attempts to break out of this system, and his persistent pursuit of justice where there is none. Yet this remains a story of inspiration and courage, and the triumph of the human spirit. The conditions in Angola almost defy description, yet King never gave up his humanity, or the work towards justice for all prisoners that he continues to do today. From the Bottom of the Heap, so simply and humbly told, strips bare the economic and social injustices inherent in our society, while continuing to be a powerful literary testimony to our own strength and capacity to overcome. The paperback edition includes additional writings from Robert King and an update on the case of the Angola 3.

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1604867914

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From the Bottom of the Heap

The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King

By: Robert Hillary King

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We Are Not Slaves

State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America

By: Robert T. Chase

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We Are Not Slaves

State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America

By: Robert T. Chase

Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards Best Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of Criminology In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopted northern prison design reforms. Texas presented the reforms to the public as modern, efficient, and disciplined. Inside prisons, however, the transition to penitentiary cells only made the endemic violence more secretive, intensifying the labor division that privileged some prisoners with the power to accelerate state-orchestrated brutality and the internal sex trade. Reformers' efforts had only made things worse--now it was up to the prisoners to fight for change. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert T. Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. Prisoners forged an alliance with the NAACP to contest the constitutionality of Texas prisons. Behind bars, a prisoner coalition of Chicano Movement and Black Power organizations publicized their deplorable conditions as "slaves of the state" and initiated a prison-made civil rights revolution and labor protest movement. These insurgents won epochal legal victories that declared conditions in many southern prisons to be cruel and unusual--but their movement was overwhelmed by the increasing militarization of the prison system and empowerment of white supremacist gangs that, together, declared war on prison organizers. Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly important truths from the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the United States as it narrates the transition from prison plantations of the past to the mass incarceration of today.

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UNC Press Books

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1469653583

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9781469653587

The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader

By: Elizabeth X. McMahan,Robert W. Funk,Susan X. Day,Linda S. Coleman

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The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader

By: Elizabeth X. McMahan,Robert W. Funk,Susan X. Day,Linda S. Coleman

Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader combines high-interest reading material with creative, principled writing instruction. This insightful and prolific author team have done it again! These are the authors with the know-how and capability to engage students. The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader is process-oriented and based on interactive pedagogy; it combines creative, up-to-date writing instruction with traditional concerns for correctness, coherence, and clarity. Short, high-interest readings provide ideas for writing, suggest ways to approach a topic, and illustrate strategies for organizing and presenting information. Each essay is accompanied by questions and assignments that guide students in analyzing what they have read and in composing their own essays. Students will experience success in their writing and will become more involved in learning; teachers will find the approach convenient and easily adaptable for their own course.

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Prentice Hall

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013192589X

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9780131925892

The Simon & Schuster Short Prose Reader

By: Robert Funk,Susan Day,Elizabeth McMahan

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The Simon & Schuster Short Prose Reader

By: Robert Funk,Susan Day,Elizabeth McMahan

A short prose reader for developmental writers. Includes over 55 readings by a diverse group of authors, arranged rhetorically. Short, appealing essays provide models for writing as well as sparking invention ideas. "Step-by-Step" writing assignments based on each reading guide students in composing successful papers.

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0130959952

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9780130959959

Nat Sherman's a Passion for Cigars

Selecting, Preserving, Smoking, and Savoring One of Life's Greatest Pleasures

By: Joel Sherman,Robert Ivry

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Nat Sherman's a Passion for Cigars

Selecting, Preserving, Smoking, and Savoring One of Life's Greatest Pleasures

By: Joel Sherman,Robert Ivry

One of the few books available on the subject. For those who are aficionados, and perhaps for those who aren't.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0836221826

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9780836221824

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