Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X -- Political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation / Angela Y. Davis -- Prison, where is thy victory? / Huey P. Newton -- Towards the United Front / George Jackson -- COINTELPRO and the destruction of Black leaders and organizations / Dhoruba bin Wahad -- Religion and revolution / Jalil Muntaquim -- July 4th address / Assata Shakur -- Coming of age : a Black revolutionary / Safiya Bukhari -- An updated history of the new Afrikan prison struggle / Sundiata Acoli -- Anarchism and the Black revolution / Lorenzo Komboa Ervin -- Intellectuals and the gallows / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Genocide waged against the Black nation / Mutulu Shakur [and others] -- The struggle for status under international law / Marilyn Buck -- White North American political prisoners / Rita Bo Brown -- On trial / Raymond Luc Levasseur -- Letter to the Weathermen / Rev. Daniel Berrigan -- Maternal convictions / Michele Naar-Obed -- An interview with lesbian political prisoners -- This is enough! / Jose Solis Jordan -- Art of liberation : a vision of freedom / Elizam Escobar -- Violence and the state / Standing Deer -- Inipi : sweat lodge / Leonard Peltier
Summary
These essays, by writer-activists incarcerated because of their political beliefs and acts, offer some controversial and thought-provoking theories of contemporary social change and liberation movements
