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Prologue to Chapter 9

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Woodfox, Albert. SolitaryGrove Atlantic, 2019. Hardcover.

• In the Prologue, it was February 19, 2016, and Woodfox was waiting to be released from prison.

• In Chapter 1, Woodfox was born in New Orleans on February 19, 1947.

• His mother, Ruby Edwards, was 17, and his father was gone.

• They lived in New Orleans until Woodfox was five.

• His mother met and married James B. Mable, a chef in the U.S. Navy.

• He was the only man Woodfox called Daddy.

• The couple had four more children and they lived on various naval bases.

• For a while Woodfox respected his mother.

• She was beautiful and took care of her children even though she could not read and write.

• She was able to add and subtract and was good with money.

• When Woodfox was 11, Mable had to retire from the Navy after...

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