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Local residents in the town of Attica don't mind the stigma of the prison uprising that took place here 50 years ago, but they remain clear-eyed about what really happened.
How Black Muslims led the prison rights movement.
The fifth demand of the Attica manifesto was that prisoners “cannot be compelled to work.”
Fifty years ago this week, September 9-13, 1971, incarcerated men at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York took control of the state prison to demand humane treatment and better living.