Captive Voices: Hearing, Seeing and Imagining Angola Prison
Tulane University Special Collections announces a new exhibit: Captive Voices: Hearing, Seeing and Imagining Angola Prison September 17, 2019 – November 29, 2019. In coordination with the Tulane University Reading Project and One Book New Orleans’ 2019 selection, Vengeance , by Tulane Professor of English Zachary Lazar, this exhibit uses materials from the Tulane University Special Collections and Lazar’s personal archives to reveal often hidden aspects of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The exhibit includes drawings from the Curtis and Davis architectural firm of the prison’s 1954 rebuilding, construction photographs by noted architectural photographer Frank Lotz Miller documenting the inmate construction crew, prison-related ephemera created by various political and social welfare organizations, selections of the inmate produced Angolite magazine, a multi-media display showcasing the music of former inmate Robert Pete Williams, and manuscripts, artifacts, and other inmate creat...