Person    | Male  Born 30/5/1942 

Robert Hillary King / Robert King Wilkerson

Categories: Law, Race Issues, Tragedy

Robert Hillary King, also known as Robert King Wilkerson, is an American known as one of the Angola Three (King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox) former prisoners who were held at Louisiana State Penitentiary in solitary confinement for decades after being convicted in 1972/3 of prison murders. King was released 2001.

See Herman Wallace for more information.

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Robert Hillary King / Robert King Wilkerson

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Mosaic House, back - Angola Three

Angola Three: Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox, King Wilkerson

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Staple Inn Hall

Staple Inn Hall

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King's Bench Prison

King's Bench Prison

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Millbank Prison

Millbank Prison

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Herman Wallace

Herman Wallace

In 1972 a prison guard was murdered in Angola Prison, Louisiana, USA, where Herman Wallace, Robert King, and Albert Woodfox were prisoners.  Wallace and Woodfox were convicted of the murder; King w...

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Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor

Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor

An exclusive club which only knights can join.  Founded in 1908 to enable a joint opposition to the Walker Trustees who were enforcing their entitlement to collect monies from newly created Knights...

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1 memorial