By Angela Davis
ISBN-10: 0893880221
ISBN-13: 9780893880224
With race and the police once again burning matters, this vintage paintings from considered one of America’s giants of black radicalism has misplaced none of its prescience or power
One of America’s so much ancient political trials is absolutely that of Angela Davis. beginning with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and together with contributions from a number of radicals equivalent to Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this booklet is not just an account of Davis’s incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but additionally might be the main complete and thorough research of the criminal procedure of the United State.
because the ebook used to be written, the carceral approach within the US has noticeable unparalleled development, with extra of America’s black inhabitants at the back of bars than ever earlier than. The scathing research of the position of legal and the policing of black populations provided by means of Davis and her comrades during this extraordinary quantity continues to be as pertinent this present day because the day it was once first published.
Featuring contributions from George Jackson, Bettina Aptheker, Bobby Seale, James Baldwin, Ruchell Magee, Julian Bond, Huey P. Newton, Erika Huggins, Fleeta Drumgo, John Clutchette, and others.
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Though his keepers sought to destroy him, George lives on, an example and inspiration for us all. August, 1971 Angela Y. Davis Some of us, white and black, know how great a price has already been paid to bring into existence a new consciousness, a new people, an unprecedented nation. If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name. If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber.
The vast majority of political prisoners have not allowed the fact of imprisonment to curtail their educational, agitational and organizing activities, which they continue behind prison walls. And in the course of developing mass movements around political prisoners, a great deal of attention has inevitably been focused on the institutions in which they are imprisoned. Furthermore the political receptivity of prisoners—especially Black and Brown captives—has been increased and sharpened by the surge of aggressive political activity rising out of Black, Chicano and other oppressed communities.
Others, as leaders in the struggle to alter—or overturn—that system. Together, they have produced an explosive document that is truly of and for our time. This book was edited and prepared for publication by Angela Y. Davis, Bettina Aptheker and other members of the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners. If They Come in the Morning VOICES OF RESISTANCE Angela Y. Davis Ruchell Magee, the Soledad Brothers and Other Political Prisoners With a Foreword by Julian Bond This edition published by Verso 2016 First published by The Third Press 1971 � National United Committee to Free Angela Davis 1971, 2016 The publisher would like to acknowledge the following publications where these essays appeared before being collected in this volume: “An Open Letter to Angela Y.