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Meet Albert Woodfox of the Angola Three | The Story of Us


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·Nov 11, 2024

Albert Woodfox had four decades in solitary confinement. He was imprisoned here in Angola State Penitentiary for most of his life. But it was an incident a year after his arrival in Angola that would change the course of Albert's life. A prison guard was found murdered.

Albert believes he and two other inmates were framed because of their affiliation with the Black Panthers. They became known as the Angola Three. Well, the Angola Three consists of myself, Herman Wallace, who passed away in 2013, and Robert Hillary King. We, you know, joined the Black Panther Party while I was still in prison.

We became politically active. We campaigned and waged various protests against institutional racism, sexual slavery, brutality, and death by security staff and prisoners upon one another as a result of them, you know, having a low level of consciousness as to what was going on.

On his 69th birthday, after 43 years and 10 months in solitary, Albert Woodfox became the last of the Angola Three to be released. Albert's body finally followed his mind to freedom.

I have four beautiful great-grandkids now, and I would like them to be judged on their abilities, you know, not their ethnicity or the color or the skin or hair textures or physical features. You know, I would not want them 10, 15, 20 years from now to be fighting the same battles that I've been fighting most of my life.

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