End the Isolation of Jamil Al-Amin

(formerly H. Rap Brown)

Open Letter to the Bureau of Prisons and State of Georgia by Concerned Academics

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 We are academics who have spent our careers researching the history of the civil rights movement, issues of racial discrimination in the United States, civil rights law, and the representation of minorities in the public sphere. We strongly believe that deepening knowledge of our nation's past is essential to informing progress in American politics and race relations today.

The acquisition of historical knowledge is strengthened considerably by having living   participants in those histories recount their experiences. We are therefore dismayed to learn of the current restrictions placed upon one such prominent participant, Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly known as H. Rap Brown).

During the 1960s, Al-Amin was a national leader of the civil rights movement and was chair of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, one of the era's key organizations. As a civil rights leader, he met with President Johnson, spoke across the country, and appeared regularly in television interviews. He is currently an inmate at the federal prison at Tuscon, Arizona. He has been held in federal custody, on behalf of the Georgia Department of Corrections, since 2007.

Throughout the last decade, all requests for interviews by scholars and journalists have been denied by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Their decision is, in part, based on the Georgia Department of Corrections' view that Al-Amin is ineligible for interviews "due to the potential security risks." Letters to and from Al-Amin are usually held by the government for months before they are released. In these ways, Al-Amin is prevented from any form of practical communication with scholars who wish to document this history.

We understand that Al-Amin has been convicted of an extremely serious charge. However, we do not believe there is any reasonable basis upon which to deny him direct access to scholars and journalists. His story ought to be documented for posterity. In-person interviews with him in prison are essential for this purpose because he is seventy-four years old and is serving a life sentence without parole.

We thus declare our opposition to the restrictions placed upon Al-Amin and call on the Georgia Department of Corrections and Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow scholarly and media interviews and communication with Al-Amin. We will make the reasons for our consternation known to our own elected representatives and the public at large.

      Academic Supporters

Isra Ali Clinical Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University Gianpaolo Baiocchi Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University Abbas Barzegar Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Georgia State University Dan Berger Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of Washington Bothell Khaled Beydoun Associate Professor of Law, University of Detroit Mercy Simone Browne Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin Jordan T. Camp Term Assistant Professor of American Studies, Barnard College Paula Chakravartty Associate Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University Emilye Crosby Professor of History, Geneseo State University of New York Nick Estes American Democracy Fellow, Harvard University Toral Gajarawala Associate Professor Of English, New York University Zareena Grewal Associate Professor of American Studies, Religious Studies, Ethnicity, Race & Migration, Yale University Christina Heatherton Assistant Professor of American Studies, Barnard College Ramzi Kassem Professor, CUNY School of Law Robin D. G. Kelley Professor of History, UCLA Deepa Kumar Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University	Arun Kundnani Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University Marisol LeBron Assistant Professor of American Studies, Dickinson College Peter B. Levy Professor, York College Nicholas Mirzoeff Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University Michael Ralph Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University Conor Tomás Reed Graduate Center, City University of New York Dylan Rodriguez Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside David R. Roediger Foundation Professor of American Studies, University of Kansas Andrew Ross Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University Micol Seigel Associate Professor of American Studies and History, Indiana University, Bloomington George Shulman Professor, Gallatin School, New York University Robyn C. Spencer Associate Professor of History, Lehman College Helga Tawil-Souri Associate Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication, and Middle East and Islamic Studies, New York University Jeanne Theoharis Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College Akinyele K. Umoja Professor of African-American Studies, Georgia State University Komozi Woodard Professor of History, Sarah Lawrence College
Kathleen Cleaver Atlanta, USA Avery Gordon Professor, University of California Curtis Austin Associate Professor University of ORegon Cynthia McKinney Assistant Professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries Associate Professor, The Ohio State University Howard Winant Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara Charles Payne Prof. , Rutgers Newark David Kazanjian Professor, University of Pennsylvania Gladys Jimenez Associate Professor, Binghamton University Ihsan Bagby Associate Professor University of Kentucky  Ania Loomba Professor University of Pennsylvania Cheran Rudhramoorthy Professor, University of Windsor Ilana Krug Associate Professor of History, York College of Pennsylvania Ira Dworkin  Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University  Jenny Bourne Editor Race & Class journal Abdullah Hakim Quick, PhD Senior Lecturer at The Islamic Institute of Toronto Cynthia Franklin  Professor of English, University of Hawai'i David Fyfe Associate Professor Gretchen Maclachlan Associate Professor Emerita, Clark Atlanta university Jeffrey L. Littlejohn Professor of History, Sam Houston State University Joseph Lowndes Associate Professor of Political Science Joseph R. Fitzgerald Assistant Professor of History & Political Science, Cabrini University Kerem Nisancioglu Lecturer in International Relations, SOAS University of London Amanda E. Rogers NEH Visiting Assistant Professor, Middle East & Islamic Studies, Colgate University  Cathy Bergin Senior Lecturer, University of Brighton Derrais Carter Assistant Professor of Black Studies - Portland State University Eddie Bruce-Jones Senior Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London Eric Covey Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies, Miami University Louis Venson Dr. Ph.D. A.J. Simmons  Masters Candidate, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte  A.YUSUF EL-FAKHRI  1Ummah Brotherhood of Central Va  Abdul Alkalimat Professor Emeritus Adam Boukari  Student Adam Elliott-Cooper Research Associate, King's College London  Alan Aja Associate Professor, Department of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Brooklyn College (CUNY) Alan McSurely Attorney-Movement Historian Aleta Alston Toure' New Jim Crow Movement Alex Abbasi PhD Candidate, University of Johannesburg Alex Carter Full-Time Lecturer, SUNY-Oneonta Amber Kelly Assistant Professor of Social Work, Quinnipiac University Amina Aden London, United Kingdom Amna Akbar Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law Amy Schrager Lang  Emerita Professor of English, Syracuse University Ana Maria Candela Assistant Professor, Binghamton University Andrea Gibbons Researcher, University of Salford Ann D. Gordon Research Professor Emerita of History, Rutgers University Arlette Muller Smith Associate Prof AFAM & English  Asha Bediako Dr Asim Qureshi PhD Candidate, University of Kent, Canterbury Aukram Burton Executive Director, Kentucky Center for African American Heritage Bashir Ali Graduate Student @ Rutgers Univ. Becky Thompson Professor of Sociology, Simmons College Bedelia Richards Associate Professor of Sociology Bench Ansfield Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University Bernice Johnson Reagon Washington, DC, USA Betty Davis  New Abolitionist Movement  Bilal Sunni-Ali Punta Gorda, Belize Bilal Yasin El-Amin Imam, The Propagation Congregation  Brathwaite Pan African Solidarity Education Network Brian Gilmore Associate Professor - Director, Michigan State University, Housing Law Clinic Carl Redwood Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work Catherine Murphy Director, The Literacy Project Charles F. Peterson Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Oberlin College Charles Holm PhD Candidate African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas  Chris Vance PhD candidate in Political Science, York University Christopher Niedt Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Claude Marks Director, Freedom Archives Claudette Smith- Brown Historian & Genealogical Researcher & Adjunct Professor, Southern University and A&M College Conrad Worrill Professor Emeritus, Northeastern I'll. Uni, Jacob Carruthers Center Corinna Mullin Adjunct, Political Science, John Jay College D.J. Walker Professor Emerita Danelle We London, United Kingdom Daniel Harmeling Adjunct Faculty, Santa Fe College Danila Genovese  Post doc fellow/ lecturer David Goldberg Associate Professor, Wayne State David Stovall Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago  David Trimble, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine Debra Schultz Assistant Professor of History, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York Derek Oakley PhD Candidate, Lancaster University Derek R. Ford Assistant Professor of Education Studies, DePauw University Derrick Newton  PhD student UC Santa Cruz  Devra Weber Associate Professor of History, University of California, Riverside Diane Grimes Associate Professor of Communication, Syracuse University  Donald Jones Professor of Law Dr Agha Saeed Retired Faculty, Departments of Communication and Philosophy, CSU-East Bay Dr Amiera Sawas Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute  Dr. Curry Malott associate professor, West Chester University of PA Dr. Krystal D. Frazier Assistant Professor of History, West Virginia University Dr. Raymond E Janifer Professor of English @ Shippensburg University Dr.Muhammad Ahmad Philadelphia, USA Eddie Hughes Head of Special Collections, Southern University Edward Opton Oakland, USA Elaine DeLott Baker Colorado Community Colleges Elbert Woodruff Professor, Retired Elizabeth S Stafford Savannah, USA Erin Brady Assistant Professor of Informatics, Indiana University, Indianapolis Fox Rinne Student, student organizer, poet Furqan Lodhi Out Reach ICT GB NC  Gary Pierson Education Specialist, New Community Foundation George Derek Musgrove  Associate professor of history george musgrove Professor of history, UMBC Gloria Boutte Professor; University of South Carolina Gomaa Ahmad M.A. Graham MacPhee Professor of English, West Chester University Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Pro of history emeritus, Rutgers University Hafeeza king Riverdale , USA Hassan Imriadh Dr. Sirte University Heike Schotten Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Boston Hester Eisenstein Professor of Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Howard Pflanzer Adjunct Associate Professor, English, Bronx Community College/CUNY Imam Dawoud Adeyola Professor Imran Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University Indya Jackson GTA @The Ohio State University Irami Osei-Frimpong PhD Student; University of Georgia Irene Siegel Independent scholar & activist Irene Silverblatt  Professor, Duke University  Jack Jackson  Assistant Professor of Politics, Whitman College  Jackie Orr Associate Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University Jackie Wang Doctoral candidate, African American Studies, Harvard University  Jade Rivera Instructor, San Francisco State University James B. Wingo Fatherhood Practitioner James Burns Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Florida International University James E. Campbell Retired NYC Administrator/Supervisor James W. Kilgore Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jane Glaubman  PhD candidate, Cornell University  Jared Ball Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University  Jared Margulies Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Politics, University of Sheffield Jelani Favors Assistant Professor, Clayton State University Jeremy Dell PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Professor of English (retired), Dillard University Jo McKillop AMRSB Postgrad, University of Roehampton Jodi Dean Professor, Hobart - William Smith Jody Sokolower Lecturer, San Jose State University Joe Singer Filmmaker/Adjunct Professor CUNY LaGuardia Joe Street Senior lecturer, Northumbria University  Joel Wainwright Professor, Ohio State U Johnson, Jr. Ph.D. George Professor, South Carolina State University Jon Burnett Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University Joyce E King Professor Georgia State University Jude Omidiran Undergraduate student, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Kaitlin Noss PhD Candidate, New York University  Kalenda Eaton Associate Professor of English Karen Young York, USA Katrina Bell McDonald Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins University Kelton Latson Comrade Khalid el-Hakim CEO/Founder, Black History 101 Mobile Museum  Kofi Lomotey Distinguished Professor, Western Carolina University Kristopher Burrell Assistant Professor, Hostos Community College	Omar Suleiman Professor of Islamic Studies, Southern Methodist University Su'ad Abdul Khabeer Associate Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan Marina Sitrin Assistant Professor, SUNY Binghamton Wesley Hogan Director, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University Melissa F. Weiner Associate Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross Natsu Taylor Saito Law Professor Trikartikaningsih Byas Associate Professor of English, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York Ward Churchill Retired Professor Mahua Sarkar Associate Professor, Sociology, Binghamton University Mary Stricker Associate Professor, Teaching Temple University Sharad Chari Associate Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley Laura Warren Hill Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Bloomfield College Liz Fekete Advisory Editor, Race & Class Michael O. West Professor of Sociology & Africana Studies, Binghamton University Rebecca Hill Professor, Kennesaw State University  Rory E. Kraft, Jr. Asst. Professor of Philosophy, York College of Pennsylvania Shana L. Redmond Associate Professor of Musicology and African American Studies, UCLA Todd Wolfson Associate Professor, Media Studies, Rutgers University Nisha Kapoor  Lecturer in Sociology, University of York Rafter Sass Ferguson Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Haverford College Rehana Parveen  Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham  Say Burgin Assistant Professor of History, Dickinson College Toussaint Losier Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Musab Younis Lecturer in International Relations, Cardiff University (UK) Peter L. Carlo Becerra Professor Milly Williamson Goldsmiths College, University of London  L. Jonathan Collier Lecturer; Ph.D. Candidate (African Diaspora History) Lauren Redniss USA Lena Abelsen Student (post colonial studies) Lennox Hinds Professor Emeritus Criminal Justice Rutgers University  Leo Wilton Professor, Binghamton University Leon Waters Manager of Hidden History Tours Lincoln Bergman Academic Specialist (retired) UC Berkeley Lisa Crooms-Robinson  Associate Dean and Professor, Howard University School of Law Lise Vogel Professor (ret.) of Sociology, Rider University Louis-Georges Schwartz  Associate Professor, Ohio University  Lyda Peters Professor Emeritus, Cambridge College Lynnell Thomas Associate Professor, American Studies Mahauganee Shaw Independent Scholar Mairaj U. Syed Associate Professor, University of California, Davis Mansa Bilal King  Associate Professor of Sociology at Morehouse College  Margaret Garb Professor of History, Washington University Maria Luiza Ribeiro KINGS PARK, USA MARIA VARELA Adjunct Prof-Rte. Colorado College Mark Anthony Neal Professor of African + African American Studies, Duke University Marlon Moore Assistant Professor, US Naval Academy Martha Livingston Professor and Chair, Public Health, SUNY Old Westbury Martin E. Rosenberg Research Associate, The New Centre for Theory and Practice Mary Ann Caton Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh Mary Barr Assistant Professor of Sociology, Kentucky State University Matt Meyer Senior Research Scholar, University of Massachusetts/Amherst Resistance Studies Initiative Matthew O'Brien  PhD Candidate, University College Dublin  Mia Cioffi Henry Cinematographer and Adjunct Professor, NYU Graduate Film Micere Githae Mugo Emeritus Professor Michael Rodriguez Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latina/o Studies, Northwestern University Michael Stephens PhD Graduate Student, Department Of Sociology, Binghamton University (SUNY) Mike DeLisa Attorney Mike Sell Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania  Mikhala  Artist  Mitchell esajas Study counseler Ms. Wanda Sabir English & Psychology faculty, College of Alameda Murtaza Shibli Visiting Lecturer, Riphah Institute of Media Sciences Musa Dan-Fodio General Counsel, International Commission on African Descendants Mustafa Ansari Dean, American Institute of Human Rights  Mutahhir Sabree Islamic Online University/Director of U.S.Operations Myrtle G. Glascoe AssistantProfessor of Education & African American Studies (retired) Nagham El Karhili Presidential fellow  Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Professor of African American Studies and Modern US History Pennsylvania State University  Nathaniel Mathews Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Binghamton University Nishani Frazier Associate Professor of History, Miami University of Ohio Noreen Winningham Retired, Adjunct Faculty, Kendall College, Evanston IL Norris L Thomas Islam Nubia Kai retired professor, Howard University Department of Theatre Arts Patricia Shine Professor of Human Services, Northern Vermont University - Lyndon Perri Gaffney Writer/Actor/Teacher Peter Blackmer PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst Priscilla Murolo Professor of History, Sarah Lawrence College randi levy Public school teacher  Ras Kofi Journalist, Educator  Ravi Arvind Palat Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University  Razakhan Shsheed Nation Time Judicial Research Inc. Research Specialist Reber Boult Albuquerque, USA Rev. Mama Sandra Simmons Co Founder Richard Mares Graduate Student, Michigan State University Richard O. Sabree Professor, Community College of Philadelphia richard wasserstrom Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy, UCSC ROBERT E FULLILOVE professor and associate dean, Columbia University Ron Wilkins Professor (retired) Cal State Univ. Dominguez Hills Rose Brewer Professor, University of Minnesota Ruqayya Ali Facilitator, Arabic and Islamic Studies Russell Rickford Associate Professor of History, Cornell University Ryan A. Huey PhD Candidate Michigan State University s e anderson Retired Math & Black History Professor S. Ani Mukherji Assistant Professor, Hobart & William Smith Colleges Sadek Hamid Senior Researcher Safia Deriche CIoL SMC  Sally Wagner Adjunct Faculty, Honors Program, Syracuse University Samuel Myers Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice, University of Minnesota Scott Ritchie Associate Professor Kennesaw State University  Segun Shabaka Ph.D., Chair, NY Chapter of The National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO) & Retired Educator Seneca Vaught Associate Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies Shabana Mir Assistant Professor, American Islamic College Shakir Bakari Williams  Educator, The Ansar Collective Shani Harris Associate Professor, Spelman College sharmin sadequee City University of New York Shawn Leigh Alexander Associate Professor, African & African American Studies, University of Kansas Sherlynn Allen-Harris Adjunct History Professor, Cuyahoga Community College Sigi Po Tolo Author Stephen Muhammad Minister, Nation Of Islam Stuart Schrader Fellow, Harvard University  Susan M. Reverby Professor Emerita, Wellesley College  Taha Abdul-Basser Advisor, Fawakih Institute Tanzeen Rashed Doha PhD candidate, University of California, Davis Tasneem Siddiqui Assistant Professor, Winston-Salem State University  Theodora Danylevich Washington, DC, USA Thomas C Holt James Westfall Thompson University Professor, History Department, University of Chicago Thomas Porter Dean African American Studies Ohio University (retired) Thomas Seweid-DeAngelis PhD Student, University of Minnesota  Tiyi Morris Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University Toni Blackman Visiting Scholar, NYU  Tyrell Austin Cambridge, USA Vicki Legion Professor, City College of San Francisco victor dildy  researcher in black studies Victor Wallis Professor, Liberal Arts dept., Berklee College of Music Victoria Delaney  PhD Candidate Binghamton University  Wayne Moreland Lecturer, Queens College CUNY Wendy Belcher Assoc Prof, Princeton University will guzman director, Hagan Africana Studies Center at NJCU William Martin Professor, Binghamton University Willie Mack Graduate Student Willis Caffery Long Beach, USA Willow Lung-Amam Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Yasmin Dualeh LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom Yusuf Ahmed Nur Associate Professor, Indiana University Kokomo  Zayid Muhammad  Poet-Actor-Author Zifeng Liu        Graduate student, Cornell University
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Aisha al-Adawiya Founder, Women In Islam Inc , New York, USA Khalid Griggs  Imam,Vice-President Civic Engagement ICNA, Winston-Salem , USA A. Yusuf ELFAKHRI  1 Ummah , Richmond , USA Aadil L. 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