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The Angola 3 : black panthers and the last slave plantation / by Jimmy O'Halligan.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Black studies in video.
- Black studies in video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- King, Robert Hillary, 1942-.
- King, Robert Hillary.
- Wallace, Herman.
- Woodfox, Albert.
- African American prisoners--Civil rights--Louisiana--Angola.
- African American prisoners.
- Black Panther Party.
- Civil rights.
- Louisiana.
- Louisiana--Angola.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (109 min.) : sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Pottstown, PA : MVD Entertainment Group, 2008.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- This documentary by Jimmy O'Halligan tells the gripping story of Robert King Wilkerson, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer then any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana's prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings. This feature length movie explores their extraordinary struggle for justice while incarcerated in Angola, a former slave plantation where institutionalized rape and murder made it known as one of the most brutal and racist prisons in the United States. The analysis of the Angola 3's political work, and the criminal cases used to isolate and silence them, occurs within the context of the widespread COINTELPRO being carried out in the 1960s and 70s by the FBI and state law enforcement against militant voices for change. Narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal, The Angola 3 features interviews with former Panthers, political prisoners and revolutionaries, including the Angola 3 themselves, and Bo Brown, Geronimo (ji Jaga) Pratt, Malik Rahim, Yuri Kochiyama, David Hilliard, Rod Coronado, Noelle Hanrahan, Kiilu Nyasha, Marion Brown, Luis Talamantez, Gail Shaw and many others.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames (Black studies in video, viewed March 28, 2014).
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2013. (Black studies in video). Available via World Wide Web.
- OCLC:
- 881547093
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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