Introduction -- In the beginning -- 1960s -- The high steppers -- Car chase -- Angola, 1960s -- Prison days -- Parole and back again -- Stickup artist -- Tony's green room -- Escape -- 1970s -- Meeting the Black Panther Party -- What is the Party? -- NYC prison riot -- Hostages -- Angola, 1971 -- Herman Wallace -- April 17, 1972 -- CCR -- King arrives -- CCR wars -- My trial, 1973 -- Herman's trial, 1974 -- King is set up -- Gary Tyler -- Food slots -- My greatest achievement -- Strip search battle -- 1980s -- "I got you" -- Sick call -- The shakedown and the sham of the Reclass Board -- Comrades -- Contact visit -- Maturity -- 1990s -- Justice delayed is justice denied -- My greatest loss -- Preparing for my trial -- Amite City -- The crusades -- The trial, 1998 -- Back to Angola -- 2000-2010 -- We stand together -- Hidden evidence -- King leaves the belly of the beast -- Torture at Camp J -- Cruel and unsual -- "Are you still sane?" -- 2008 -- Never apart -- 2011-2016 -- Torture -- Forty years -- Man of steel -- The ends of justice -- Theories -- The struggle continues -- A plea for freedom, not justice -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Nearly forty years in solitary confinement in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell for 23 hours a day for a crime he did not commit, Albert Woodfox survived and emerged with his humanity and sense of hope for the future intact.
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