The "Folsom Manifesto" is released, providing a template for later prison strike demands.
Date: 1970
On November 3, 1970, over 2,400 men launch a work strike at Folsom State Prison in California, releasing a "Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Oppression Platform." Although the document originates at San Quentin, it becomes known as the "Folsom Manifesto." It provides a rough draft for the demands that dissident incarcerated people will use in strikes across the country—most famously, in the statement released as part of the four-day uprising at New York's Attica Correctional Facility in September 1971.