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This record of a black man accused of a conspiracy of which he was unaware, deprived of counsel of his choice, deprived of the right to speak for himself in his own words, bound, gagged, chained and sentenced to four years without jury trial, and subject to another trial on the same charges, has all the fantastical, compelling horror of a Kafka allegory....In the pages which follow, Julian Bond (a witness at the trial) elaborates the implications of Seale's resistance for blacks and for America itself. Professor Norman Dorsen of the New York University School of Law and the American Civil Liberties Union, an authority on the law of contempt, explores and sets forth the stake all Americans have in the fair treatment for Seale under law. Charles Rembar, one of the country's foremost attorneys, prominent in areas of constitutional and literacy law, uses poetic license to reflect the essence of the proceedings. And Bobby Seale, from a jail cell in Connecticut, adds a comment, written especially for this volume, about the influences on his attitude and behavior and his belief that injustice is also color blind. But most of all it is the contempt citations itself that reflects the progression of events that engulfed Bobby Seale. This record, together with his pleas then and now for justice, are likely to be with the American Conscience for some time. --- from book's back cover
