SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME BANNED IN ALABAMA

Douglas A. Blackmon's Slavery By Another Name Newsletter: "Alabama Inmate Sues to Read Southern History Book
BY CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

The past is never dead, though at the Kilby Correctional Facility outside of Montgomery, Ala., it seems it is not particularly welcome.

Last Friday, Mark Melvin, who is serving a life sentence at Kilby, filed suit in federal court against the prison’s officials and the state commissioner of corrections, claiming they have unjustly kept a book out of his hands."

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