"We Are Striking a Blow at the State:" The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike

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"We Are Striking a Blow at the State:" The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike

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“We Are Striking a Blow at the State:” The Alabama Prisoners Work Strike – Scalawag

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Work strikes or "shutdowns," as we like to call them down here in Alabama, are also geared toward consciousness-raising of prisoners as an oppressed class.

In order to continue to exploit Black prisoner labor and profit from it, Thomas E. Kilby, the governor of Alabama, ordered the construction of the Kilby prison and even named it after himself.

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