Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious pen, was the site of a crucial civil rights battle 50 years ago. Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American ...

A view of Alcatraz island and penitentiary circa the 1930s in the San Francisco Bay. From the mid-1930s until the mid-1960s, Alcatraz (“the Rock”) was America’s premier maximum-security ...