Black Panther and Former Angola 3 Prisoner Robert Hillary King to Speak
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Come hear Robert Hillary King’s powerful story and learn about the campaign to free his Angola 3 comrades Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, who are still serving life sentences despite much evidence of their innocence.
What: Robert Hillary King, Black Panther and former member of the Angola 3
When: Saturday, April 11, Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Where: First Universalist Church of Rochester, 150 S. Clinton Ave.
Free and Open to the public
In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King (also known as Robert King Wilkerson) of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. While locked inside Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Penitentiary, an 18,000-acre former slave plantation, he became a member of the Black Panther Party, 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 of Louisiana grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free.
Additional Information: Angola3.org | Angola3Action.org | Aid and Abet | Angola 3: 36 Years of Solitude | A3grassroots.org | Robert Hillary King's website | King's Candy: A New Orleans Kitchen Vision | The House that Herman Built | Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation | The Real Cost of Prisons Project | Prison Radio | Life in Solitary Confinement: 12,775 Days Alone | USA: Amnesty International calls for immediate end to prolonged solitary confinement of Louisiana prisoners Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox | Prison Activist Resource Center | Critical Resistance | The Critical Resistance - INCITE! Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison-Industrial Complex