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THEY had rebelled, the men of cell block D told prison officials and negotiators, to protest their anonymity, to rail against their status as faceless numbers. During the Attica uprising, a few of them fleetingly achieved that goal when they appeared on TV screens. Two of their stories...
...fall of 1970, Blyden was transferred from Attica to the Tombs, Manhattan's Men's House of Detention, to await a hearing on one of his appeals. In October, the Tombs exploded into a riot; Blyden was indicted as one of the leaders of the rebellion and was returned to Attica after the revolt collapsed...
...outside mediators at the meetings in cell block D. Ironically, the day that the rebels first met with the negotiators, a letter from Blyden to one of them, State Senator John Dunne, was floating unread through the mails. It contained a restrained appeal for an official inspection tour of Attica. "We have been trying to apprise the public and the news media of conditions for some time, to no avail. Your assistance in these most serious matters is urgently needed...
RICHARD CLARK. There seem to be two Richard Clarks. One of them is known to Attica as "Brother Richard," the Black Muslim who spoke passionately about revolution when he addressed his fellow inmates in cell block D and with cold, unswerving conviction when he faced prison officials over the negotiating table. The other Richard Clark, to the best of his family's knowledge, is no revolutionary but a quiet, amiable "homebody" who liked to halt neighbors on the sidewalk so they could admire his twin sons...
...neat lines of American flags being flown in salute to the dead lent a cruelly false holiday air to the streets of Attica, N.Y. All was grimly silent. On Main Street, there was a long line of cars parked in front of the Marley Funeral Home. On the front porch, small knots of people somberly watched the steady stream of mourners pass in and out the front door or stared vacantly at the state police cars cruising the otherwise deserted streets. Seven of Attica's men were dead. All three public schools were closed, yet few young people were...