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Foreward and Chapters 1-4

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Hinton, Anthony Ray. The Sun Does Shine. St. Martin’s Press, 2018. Kindle EBook.

· In the Foreward written by Bryan Stevenson, an attorney, Stevenson wrote that Anthony Ray Hinton was released from prison on April 3, 2015, after spending almost 30 years in solitary confinement on Alabama’s death row.

· Hinton was one of the longest-serving condemned prisoners facing execution in American to be proven innocent and released.

· Stevenson wanted people to understand that in America people were “arrested, accused of something horrible, imprisoned, wrongly convicted” (xii) because they do not have the money to defend themselves.

· Then they were condemned to execution.

· Hinton grew up poor and Black in rural Alabama.

· He understood “the harsh realities of Jim Crow segregation and the way racial bias constrained the lives of people of color” (xiii).

· His...

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