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![House that Herman Built](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2013Call Number: CD 862Format: DVDProducers: Jackie SumellCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Herman's House is a portrait of a man who won't give up fighting for his freedom and, inevitably, a critique of a justice system that has confined him for decades in solitary--a condition that some decry as torture. The film is even more the story of an unlikely artistic collaboration that brought thousands of Americans face-to-face with the harsh reality of Wallace's confinement and went on to change profoundly the lives of both the Louisiana prisoner and the New York artist.
New Orleans native and former Black Panther activist Herman Wallace went to jail in 1967 at age 25 for a robbery he admits committing. In 1972, he was accused of the murder of a prison guard, a crime he vehemently denies, and placed in solitary confinement in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola. Wallace was subsequently given a life sentence. Fellow Black Panther Albert Woodfox was also placed in solitary and then convicted of the same guard's murder. A third Panther activist, Robert King, was placed in solitary at that time though eventually convicted of a different murder. Together the three men became famous as the "Angola Three."
Except for a brief period, Wallace has remained in solitary confinement 23 hours a day for 40 years, and he has never stopped protesting and appealing his murder conviction. Over the years, as doubts about the men's guilt accumulated--King was freed in 2001, and in February of this year a judge ordered the release of Woodfox--concern has also grown that Wallace and an estimated 80,000 other prisoners in the United States are being subjected to solitary confinement. In 2002, Wallace received a letter that asked an extraordinary question. Jackie Sumell, a young New York artist, wrote, "What kind of house does a man who has lived in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?"
![The House That Herman Built](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Writings and images by the Angola 3
![The Deeper they Bury Me the Louder My Voice Becomes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
This publication accompanies the exhibition The Deeper They Bury Me- The Louder My Voice Becomes. Curated by Amy Mackie.
![Sweet Freedom](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Reproduction of original article
![Cruel and Unusual Punishment: Daily Terror at Camp J](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Monograph about the Angola 3 and the inhumane treatment of prisoners at Angola State Prison in Louisiana
![28 Years of Solitary Confinement](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Pamphlet with background information about the Angola 3, a piece by Mumia Abu-Jamal, a piece by Geronimo Pratt and contact information to support the Angola 3
![Swamped by Racism](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The Big IssueYear: 2006Volume Number: No. 708 August-SeptemberFormat: ArticleCollection: Angola 3
The plight of three Black American prisoners held in solitary confinement highlights a hidden world within the United States.
![National Coalition to Free the Angola 3](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: National Coalition to Free the Angola 3Date: 11/2000Volume Number: NovemberFormat: PamphletCollection: Angola 3
History of the Angola 3 case, writings by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Geronimo Pratt, Albert Woodfox, Herman Wallace and Robert King Wilkerson.
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