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![David Hilliard on George Jackson and the history of the modern-day prison movement](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/22/2001Call Number: PM 173Format: DATProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: George Jackson
Claude Marks and Lincoln Bergman interview David Hilliard on George Jackson and the history of the modern-day prison movement for Prisons on Fire
![Angela Davis on George Jackson and history of the modern-day prison movement](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/19/2001Call Number: PM 174Format: DATProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanCollection: George Jackson
Claude Marks and Lincoln Bergman interview Angela Davis on the murder of George Jackson and the history of the modern-day prison movement.
![Black August Revisited](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interview with Ruchell McGee, political prisoner arrested in 1963 for a murder he did not commit. McGee, one of the longest held political prisoners, was convicted of kidnap and robbery in 1963 and sentenced to life in prison after a dispute over a $10 bag of marijuana. In the interview he speaks extensively about his two trials, the consolidation of his case with four others for crimes he was not originally charged with, as well as the brutal physical torture he endured leading up to his second trial.
![Black August Revisted](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interview with Geronimo Pratt by Reggie Major at Mule Creek State Prison shortly before Pratt was denied parole after having spent 24 years in prison. Falsely convicted of murder and robbery in 1970 as part of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO program to destroy Black Liberation groups in the late 1960's, Pratt spent 27 years in California State Prisons. In the interview Pratt talks about his conviction, his eight years of solitary confinement and the transformational power he sees in contemporary street gangs.
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