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THE DAMNED DON't CRY: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Memoirs of an Organizer THE DAMNED DON’T CRY Pages From The Life of a Black Prisoner & Memoirs of an Organizer By Frank Edgar Chapman, Jr. Changemaker Publications THE DAMNED DON'T CRY: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner and Memoirs of an Organizer By FRANK EDGAR CHAPMAN, JR. Copyright © By Frank E. Chapman Jr. All Rights Reserved Changemaker Publications Pittsburgh 2019 Layout & Design: Carl Davidson ISBN: XXX-XXX-XXXX Order online at: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/changemaker Frank Chapman i A Blurb And Two Quick Reviews Angela Davis in a note for my mem- oirs wrote: “This extraordinary memoir from a seasoned communist organizer is also the riveting account of a prisoner’s unrelenting journey toward freedom. Combining a close analysis of move- ment building – from battles against police violence and politi- cal repression to successful election campaigns – with a personal story of the effects of mass incarceration, Frank Chapman re- veals what it means to generate optimism amid circumstances where all hope would seem to be obliterated. In these neoliberal times, Frank is cautious about presenting his account, including his struggle with personal demons, as an individual triumph. In- stead, he shows us the potential of a political engagement so pro- found that it has the power to save many lives, including his own.” Bill Ayers, who was cast by Barack Obama’s opponents in 2008 as a former leader of the Weather Underground, wrote this short re- view: “Frank Chapman’s life story is entirely com- pelling, and his memoir-riveting, trembling, and real-is a foundational American narrative, illuminating the flip side of the mythical American Dream: the agonizing, painful, and sometimes horrifying American Nightmare. “The Damned Don’t Cry” is the heartfelt personal account of one Black man sentenced to life plus fifty years in prison when he was just 19-years-old, and his life-long struggle for truth and recon- ciliation, redemption and justice. ii The Damned Don’t Cry On a deeper level this is the story of our country in full, including the violence and the pain, the tragedy and the shame. The after- life of slavery is made manifest on every page, vivid illustrations of oppression and predation, thunderous echoes of genocide, tor- ture, and terrorism. The education of Frank Chapman contains a curriculum for the country, and for all of us. Teacher, organizer, long-time inmate and jail-house lawyer, intel- lectual and writer-Frank Chapman is, above all, a class warrior and a freedom fighter. As a young man he chose to storm the heavens in pursuit of human liberation, and he never quit. In this essential book we hear the adult voice, the mature voice, both re- flecting on that long-ago revolutionary commitment, and urging us to build an unstoppable social movement for peace and justice- for a world in balance and powered by love. Aislinn Pulley, a leader of Black Lives Matter Chicago wrote in her review: This is an incredibly timely and important book about a leader who continues to offer wisdom and guidance and inspiration to today’s movement. Frank’s lived experiences illustrate the tortur- ous reality of US imprisonment that has only increased with the rise of mass incarceration. What is most inspiring is Frank’s intellectual pursuit and intel- lectual curiosity that broke through the shackles of prison, a life sentence, solitary confinement, prison guard beatings, to produce liberatory and revolutionary mobilization while inside the current day manifestation of slavery that is the current US prison system! His analysis and commitment to justice and the oppressed en- abled him to see through the carefully disguised use of prison segregation- to disguise the brutal reality of prison and the tor- ture it wages on all prisoners- and instead fought for integration. He engaged in this fight not because of some naive conception of unity, but because he understood the forces of the prison system benefitted from segregation in order to foster racial animosity between Black and white prisoners to keep the animosity on the source that waged brutality on them all, the prison system itself. Frank Chapman iii The most eye-opening example of this was when Frank details the warden’s attempt to create a “race riot” by caging the Black radi- cals with the white supremacist prisoners to- gether, beat them and maced them, in order to get the groups to enact violence upon each other. Instead this ended up uniting them by exposing the true arbiter of violence, and ex- posing the true intent of racial division. What a truly remarkable real life example expos- ing one of the most important functions of US white supremacy, which is to mask the brutality, inequity and class exploitation that is a required function of the US capitalist colonialist empire. Frank continues to inspire, motivate and teach not only me but a whole layer of people who have newly become radicalized through today’s popularly called Black lives matter movement. It is inte- gral and necessary that we study lessons and struggle with those who have had the fortune of amassing great experience and wis- dom so that we lessen the chance of making needless mistakes and increase our ability to carry the torch of liberation forward. We are lucky to count Frank among us. We are privileged to strug- gle alongside him. Amandla! iv The Damned Don’t Cry DEDICATION A Short Journey Into the Night of a New Day Written November, 2017 while visiting prisoners in Jefferson City, Missouri I entered the Missouri Department of Corrections November 3, 1961 with a sentence of Life and Fifty Years. I was charged with murder and robbery and the sentencing Judge said I should be isolated from society for the rest of my life. I was 19 years old. Thanks to the movement led by Charlene Mitchell, Angela Davis, Esther Cooper Jackson, Hershel Walker and others I came home in 1976. In the same prison, in 1969, I met a young 17-year-old prisoner who had been certified as an adult when he was 16 and sentenced to two Life Sentences. His name was Larry Thomas and he was an outstanding boxer on his way to becoming the middle weight champion in the prison. I gave him a book (Ghetto Rebellion to Black Liberation, by Claude Lightfoot) along with this message: "Read this because you can't box your way out of prison." He did, and he also joined our Marxist-Leninist collective and founded the prisoner advocate group called "Lifers Incorporated". Larry went on to get out of prison and graduated from Lincoln University with a Master of Arts Degree A Reunion Well today Larry and I had a reunion. What was the occasion? A prison branch of the NAACP in Jefferson City, Mo. Invited us to their annual awards dinner because they wanted to thank us for the founding of Lifers, Inc. and the first State Prison Branch of the NAACP in the nation in 1973. They saluted us for leading struggles inside the prisons to desegregate, and end the over-crowdedness Frank Chapman v which was causing Black prisoners to live four and six men to a cell; for getting 32 illegally held juveniles released; for litigating for our first amendment rights to read Black literature and literature on national lib- eration and socialism; for winning the right to con- tinue to pursue our edu- cation at the college level and for getting started in 1972 a community college at the prison in Moberly, Missouri. It was a very moving experience hav- ing young prisoners telling us "what you brothers did then, over forty years ago has inspired us to continue the struggle for our human rights and for reforms that will end mass incarceration…." It was an emotional experience that defies verbal expression to see these brothers fighting now with the same tenacity and revo- lutionary fortitude we had over forty years ago. They called us in as honored guests not to share a simple success story of how we beat the unbeatable odds but to acknowledge and carry forward a legacy of struggle that refuses to surrender to oppression period. They called us in to remind us that we have a duty to make free- dom ring for those imprisoned Now. After Larry and I spoke Mar- cus Granger, the prison chapter of the NAACP President, handed me a brochure with this message from W.E.B. DuBois: "Now is the accepted time, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best can be done." Today unlike yesteryear 1961 I took a short journey into the night of a new day where prisoners themselves (once again) are taking the helm and demanding our support. We must and will help them in whatever way we can. vi The Damned Don’t Cry I dedicate this book to them and to Theodore Taylor (Sleeves), Leon Dent (Black Liberator) who were murdered by the prison guards, and to those like Ronnie Jones, Virgil Pearson, Jerry Sprag- gins, and Henry (Shasha Black Panther) Brown who survived the prison experience only to perish in the dog eat dog existence of capitalism and of course to determined survivors like Robert Ar- nold Jameson, Danny Boy Jackson, Joseph Stalin Reynolds, Thom- as McCreary (Black Panther), Larry Thomas and Lorenzo Petty,I also dedicate this book. There is another whole army of people in the movement to whom I owe my existence and so much more. Let me name them in the order that they came into my life: Esther Cooper Jackson, James Jackson, Jack O'Dell, Herschel Walker, Dr.
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