<I>The Lifer, January/February/March 1974</I>
date: label: Date
content: January/February/March 1974
name: label: Edited by
content: Wilbert Rideau, American, born 1942
label: Edited by
content: Tommy Mason
label: Edited by
content: Robert Jackson
label: Edited by
content: Kenneth Plaisance
label: Written by
content: Darryl Evans
label: Written by
content: Kenneth Johnston
label: Written by
content: Monroe Green
label: Written by
content: Cleveland Johnson
label: Written by
content: Herman Smith
label: Illustrated by
content: Donald Jones
label: Illustrated by
content: Ronald Jones
label: Subject of
content: Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, American, founded 1835
notes: label: Description
content: This issue of The Lifer magazine, January/February/March 1974, has a cover featuring a black illustration and text. The illustration depicts two knights in armor fighting with swords. A quotation from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1862 book The House of the Dead is typed below the drawing. Text along the bottom reads: SPECIAL FEATURE by Mario Puzo, / Author of "THE GODFATHER". The featured article is a reprint from Puzo's 1972 book The Godfather Papers and concerns federal government and corporate corruption. Other stories examine prison reform, an increase in hiring of female staff at the facility, and two pieces on the issue of so-called black-on-black crime. There are also illustrations throughout and several original poems, as well as reports on daily activities and inmate organizations. The magazine has sixty-two (62) interior pages and is bound with three (3) metal staples.
place: label: Place made
content: West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Journalism
label: Topic
content: Justice
label: Topic
content: Men
label: Topic
content: Prisons
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Wilbert Rideau and Linda LaBranche
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.139.2.2
objectType: label: Type
content: magazines (periodicals)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)