A crowd of tourists listen to a tour guide at Alcatraz prison. San Francisco,California
A crowd of tourists listen to a tour guide at Alcatraz prison. Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, miles ( km) offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.[2] Often referred to as "The Rock," the small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison (1868), and a federal prison from 1933 until 1963.[3] Beginning in November 1969, the island was occupied for more than 19 months by a group of Aboriginal Peoples from San Francisco who were part of a wave of Native activism across the nation with public protests through the 1970s. In 1972 Alcatraz became a national recreation area and received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
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