Alcatraz Quotes

“Having been recently subjugated, the U.S. government ordered them to farm, required them to undergo education in order to learn how to become American, to send their children away to boarding schools to do the same, to stop speaking their language, and to stop practicing their religion.”
― Mark Black, Alcatraz: A Very Brief History

“However, the history of Alcatraz is more varied and interesting than many people might think; its strategically important location in the San Francisco Bay meant that it was an important defensive fort for several decades, and it played a key role in the American Civil War, when it served as a military prison.”
― Mark Black, Alcatraz: A Very Brief History