Title: From the bottom of the heap
First published: 2008
Description: >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.

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Subjects: Race relations, Prisoners, Black Panther Party, African American political activists, Ex-convicts, Biography, African americans, biography, Prisoners, biography, United states, race relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Penology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Political
Places: United States
People: Robert Hillary King (1942-)
LC classification: E185.97.K59 A3 2008