7020a) Dorothy Ashby - Sept 18, 1971 Chicago-Surburban News Newspaper featuring headline about the historic "Attica Prison Shooting" with a headline above that about "The Ashby Players" production of the play "The Choice" being performed in Chicago.
7020a) Dorothy Ashby - This is the Sept. 18, 1971 Chicago-Suburban News Newspaper front page featuring the historic "Attica Prison Shooting" headline with heading banner above that about "The Ashby Players" production of the African-American play "The Choice" being performed in Chicago, Ill. at Malcolm X College.
"The Ashby Players" was the most common name for the theatrical production company started by John and Dorothy Ashby.
"Attica Prison Shooting with 40 dead..." refers to what history commonly refers to as the infamous "Attica Prison Riots" The Attica Prison Riots are so historically significant that I am going to include a portion of the Wikipedia article as follows:
Attica Prison riot
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States in 1971. The riot was based upon prisoners' demands for political rights and better living conditions. On September 9, 1971, responding to the death of prisoner George Jackson, a black radical activist prisoner who had been shot to death by corrections officers in California's San Quentin Prison on August 21, about 1,000 of the Attica prison's approximately 2,200 inmates rebelled and seized control of the prison, taking 33 staff hostage.
During the following four days of negotiations, authorities agreed to 28 of the prisoners' demands, but would not agree to demands for complete amnesty from criminal prosecution for the prison takeover or for the removal of Attica's superintendent. By the order of then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller, state police took back control of the prison. When the uprising was over, at least 39 people were dead, including ten correctional officers and civilian employees.
At the time of the riots, black militancy was at its peak and many black prisoners had transferred to Attica causing prison population to increase from its designed 1200 prisoners to 2243.[18] 54% of these were Black American, 9% Puerto Rican and 37% white;[19] however, all of the 383 correctional officers were white. Some corrections officers were openly racist and assaulted the prisoners with their batons, which they dubbed "nigger sticks".[18] Additionally, George Jackson, a member of the Black Panther Party, had died at the hands of white prison officers two weeks before the riot in the San Quentin State Prison in California.
7020a) Dorothy Ashby - Sept 18, 1971 Chicago-Surburban News Newspaper featuring headline about the historic "Attica Prison Shooting" with a headline above that about "The Ashby Players" production of the play "The Choice" being performed in Chicago.
7020a) Dorothy Ashby - This is the Sept. 18, 1971 Chicago-Suburban News Newspaper front page featuring the historic "Attica Prison Shooting" headline with heading banner above that about "The Ashby Players" production of the African-American play "The Choice" being performed in Chicago, Ill. at Malcolm X College.
"The Ashby Players" was the most common name for the theatrical production company started by John and Dorothy Ashby.
"Attica Prison Shooting with 40 dead..." refers to what history commonly refers to as the infamous "Attica Prison Riots" The Attica Prison Riots are so historically significant that I am going to include a portion of the Wikipedia article as follows:
Attica Prison riot
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Attica Prison riot occurred at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, United States in 1971. The riot was based upon prisoners' demands for political rights and better living conditions. On September 9, 1971, responding to the death of prisoner George Jackson, a black radical activist prisoner who had been shot to death by corrections officers in California's San Quentin Prison on August 21, about 1,000 of the Attica prison's approximately 2,200 inmates rebelled and seized control of the prison, taking 33 staff hostage.
During the following four days of negotiations, authorities agreed to 28 of the prisoners' demands, but would not agree to demands for complete amnesty from criminal prosecution for the prison takeover or for the removal of Attica's superintendent. By the order of then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller, state police took back control of the prison. When the uprising was over, at least 39 people were dead, including ten correctional officers and civilian employees.
At the time of the riots, black militancy was at its peak and many black prisoners had transferred to Attica causing prison population to increase from its designed 1200 prisoners to 2243.[18] 54% of these were Black American, 9% Puerto Rican and 37% white;[19] however, all of the 383 correctional officers were white. Some corrections officers were openly racist and assaulted the prisoners with their batons, which they dubbed "nigger sticks".[18] Additionally, George Jackson, a member of the Black Panther Party, had died at the hands of white prison officers two weeks before the riot in the San Quentin State Prison in California.