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Today in Georgia History: Prison Protest
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Sept. 10, 1980
In the largest peaceful protest ever in a Georgia state prison, over 1,000 inmates at the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville refused to work in order to dramatize their plea for more rights and better living conditions, according to Georgia Info, The University of Georgia.
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