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SUMMARY:Surviving Angola Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Legacy of Slave
	ry
DTSTAMP:20261109T141105Z
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DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, November 9 \, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagop
	ian will be in conversation with author Gary Tyler about his book Stitchin
	g Freedom: A True Story of Injustice\, Defiance\, and Hope in Angola Priso
	n . Gary Tyler spent more than four decades in prison for a murder he didn
	’t commit. At 17\, he became the youngest person on death row in the Unite
	d States. The legacy of enslavement reverberates through the prison indust
	rial complex. Angola Prison\, where Tyler spent decades incarcerated\, was
	 built on the grounds of a former Louisiana plantation. On November 9\, jo
	in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class to explore the connections b
	etween mass incarceration and the legacy of enslavement\, and learn what s
	ustained Tyler’s pursuit of justice.
URL:https://grassrootsdc.org/events-list/2026/surviving-angola-prison-mass-
	incarceration-and-the-legacy-of-slavery
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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