Martin Luther King in the Birmingham jail
Birmingham Jail
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Martin Luther King in the Birmingham jail
George Jackson
Attica prison takeover, 1971
This portrait of Martin Sostre was created in the early 1970s by his political comrade Jerry Ross. Ross was an anti–Vietnam War activist in Buffalo, New York, and frequented Sostre’s Afro-Asian bookstore before Sostre was framed and imprisoned in 1967. Ross was active in the Martin Sostre Defense Committee and pushed Amnesty International to name Sostre a “prisoner of conscience” in 1973.
Muslim men at Folsom Prison in California pray under surveillance on August 26, 1963.