Heather Ann Thompson
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 724 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Historian Heather Ann Thompson offers the first definitive telling of the Attica prison uprising, the state's violent response, and the victims' decades-long quest for justice--in time for the forty-fifth anniversary of the events"--
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with...