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In prose both concise and personal, Eddie Conway's memoir is essentially a story about hope. Here is a man who has been in prison for forty years for a crime many people are convinced he did not commit, yet he maintains a realistic optimism in his situation and that of the world. The hope he maintains is not one based on some pie-in-the-sky scheme. Instead, it is based on a practical understanding of the merits and rewards of political organizing. As Conway tells the reader, those merits are not only seen in the programs and other results brought to life by political organizing, they are also seen in the personal meaning they give to those doing the organizing. From the Black Panthers community breakfast programs he was involved in to the various programs he helped organize in the Maryland prison system, Conway proves the values of organizing again and again.—Ronald Jacobs, for Counterpunch
In this narrative, summoned from the void that is prison, a unique individual is called into being. Like many narratives of incarceration, Marshall Law is also the story of a soul that has freed itself. We should take note. Now the state of Maryland needs to let Marshall “Eddie” Conway come home.—Michael Corbin
In this narrative, summoned from the void that is prison, a unique individual is called into being. Like many narratives of incarceration, Marshall Law is also the story of a soul that has freed itself. We should take note. Now the state of Maryland needs to let Marshall “Eddie” Conway come home.—Michael Corbin
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Marshall “Eddie” Conway is a former member of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party. In 1969, he uncovered evidence of the FBI’s infiltration of the Panthers as a part of the COINTELPRO initiative, and found himself locked away one year later, convicted of a murder he did not commit. Currently into his forth decade of incarceration in a Maryland correctional facility, he has played a leading role in a variety of prisoner support initiatives, including the formation of the Maryland chapter of the United Prisoner’s Labor Union, and the ACLU’s Prison Committee to Correct Prison Conditions as well as the American Friends Service Committee's A Friend of a Friend program.
Mr. Conway is the author of two books, The Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO, and his memoir, Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Social Science from Coppin State University.
Dominque Demetrea Stevenson is the mother of four children. An activist who speaks extensively about political prisoners and the prison industrial complex, she is currently the director of the Maryland Peace with Justice Program of the Middle Atlantic Region of the American Friends Service Committee in Baltimore, Maryland. She coordinates prisoner run mentoring projects in Maryland prisons. The program, A Friend of a Friend, helps foster healing, and connects young men with prison mentors who help them develop the skills necessary to navigate violent situations, and prepare for a successful return to their communities. She is the co-author of Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, and has written a novel, Blues Before Sunrise. Dominque currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mr. Conway is the author of two books, The Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO, and his memoir, Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Social Science from Coppin State University.
Dominque Demetrea Stevenson is the mother of four children. An activist who speaks extensively about political prisoners and the prison industrial complex, she is currently the director of the Maryland Peace with Justice Program of the Middle Atlantic Region of the American Friends Service Committee in Baltimore, Maryland. She coordinates prisoner run mentoring projects in Maryland prisons. The program, A Friend of a Friend, helps foster healing, and connects young men with prison mentors who help them develop the skills necessary to navigate violent situations, and prepare for a successful return to their communities. She is the co-author of Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, and has written a novel, Blues Before Sunrise. Dominque currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
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A review of Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
By Marshal Eddie Conway and Dominique Stevens
Reviewed by: Lawrence Grandpre
[...]
Living in Baltimore, one may often look around and feel a sense of confusion, wondering how this city got where it is. For those of my generation (born in the 80s) the houses appear to have been always abandoned, the schools always underfunded and deeply segregated, and the summers always violent. Conceptualizing the meaning of this present state of affairs becomes impossible outside of an understanding of the cities past, a story seldom told in most circles. Into this void steps Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, the most recent book by imprisoned former Black Panther "Marshal" Eddie Conway. Like so many member of the Black Panthers, Conway was a target of the Federal Government's Counter Intelligence Program (also known as CONINTELPRO), a program specifically designed to destroy radical leftist groups the government viewed as threats, leading to his false imprisonment on the charge of murdering a police officer. In the book Conway details a story similar to that of many other imprisoned Black radicals; young black man grows up rough in the inner city without political consciousness, gets into trouble, starts to turn life around by developing an understanding of history and racism only to imprisoned on trumped up charges.Read more ›
By Marshal Eddie Conway and Dominique Stevens
Reviewed by: Lawrence Grandpre
[...]
Living in Baltimore, one may often look around and feel a sense of confusion, wondering how this city got where it is. For those of my generation (born in the 80s) the houses appear to have been always abandoned, the schools always underfunded and deeply segregated, and the summers always violent. Conceptualizing the meaning of this present state of affairs becomes impossible outside of an understanding of the cities past, a story seldom told in most circles. Into this void steps Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, the most recent book by imprisoned former Black Panther "Marshal" Eddie Conway. Like so many member of the Black Panthers, Conway was a target of the Federal Government's Counter Intelligence Program (also known as CONINTELPRO), a program specifically designed to destroy radical leftist groups the government viewed as threats, leading to his false imprisonment on the charge of murdering a police officer. In the book Conway details a story similar to that of many other imprisoned Black radicals; young black man grows up rough in the inner city without political consciousness, gets into trouble, starts to turn life around by developing an understanding of history and racism only to imprisoned on trumped up charges.Read more ›
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