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												By: by Big Tree, Cornplanter, and Half-Town (Seneca, 1790) 
													Read MoreSource: Drake, Samuel. Biography and history of the Indians of North America, from its first discovery. Boston, B. B. Mussey, 1848. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Paula Gunn Allen
													Read MoreSinister Wisdom Vol 25, Winter 1984. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Francisco De Montejo Xiu; Juan Pacar
													Read MoreLetter of Francisco de Montejo Xiu to the King, April 12, 1567 from Yucatan. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Francis S. Drake
													Read MoreSOURCE: Francis S. Drake. The Indian Tribes of the United States. Volume 2. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1884. 34. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Christian Parenti
													Read MoreCitation: Social Justice Vol. 27, No. 3 (2000): 43-49. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Gregory Shank
													Read MoreSocial Justice Vol. 26, No. 2 (76), 25th Anniversary Commemoration (Summer 1999) 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Suzi Weissman
													Read MoreSUZI WEISSMAN, An editor of Against the Current and host of "Beneath the Surface" on KPFK radio in Los Angeles, interviewed Christian Parenti for the program broadcast November 15, 1999. We present an edited excerpt here. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Stephen Hartnett
													Read MoreOriginal Publisher unknown. Reprinted on History Is A Weapon website. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Angela Davis
													Read MorePublished in ColorLines New and published by Race Forward, The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Ward Churchill, Editor; J.J. Vander Wall, Editor
													Read MoreInterview by Karen Wald and published in Cages of Steel: The Politics Of Imprisonment In The United States (Edited by Ward Churchill and J.J. Vander Wall) 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by James Baldwin
													Read MoreIn 1970, Angela Y Davis was arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder. Davis’ gun was used in a violent hold-up of a California courtroom.  She was subsequently acquitted of all charges.
On November 19,1970, James Baldwin wrote an open letter to Angela Davis. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Anthony M. Platt
													Read MoreSocial Justice Vol. 28, No. 1 (2001): 138-155. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Angelo Herndon
													Read MoreAngelo Herndon's "You Cannot Kill the Working Class," helped educate Northerners about the injustices in the Southern legal system. Herndon (1913 - 1997) was born into a mining family and as a teenager he joined the Communist party. In 1932 he was arrested after he helped organize a peaceful, interracial march in Atlanta, Georgia. He was tried before an all-white jury for violating an obscure Georgia insurrection law, and sentenced to eighteen to twenty years on a chain ... 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Michael Keith Honey
													Read MorePublished in Black-Workers Remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle by Michael Keith Honey, pg. 20-23. In the absence of a strong protest organization in the African American community, the police in the 1930s and 1940s were happy to demonstrate their power by victimizing many hapless individuals. And yet individuals did resist. Ms. Henderson, for example, acted against her powerlessness to stop a grisly lynching by becoming an official witness to it. Her friend Mary Alexander made the choice that many people would: she hid herself from direct knowledge of police crime an... 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Angela Y. Davis; Dylan Rodriguez
													Read More"The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation" A dialog between Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodriguez , Social Justice, 27:3=81 (2000:Fall) p.212 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Jose Palafox
													Read MorePalafox, J. (2000). Opening up borderland studies: A review of U.S.-Mexico border militarization discourse. Social Justice. 27. 56-72. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Kim Gilmore
													Read MoreArticle published in the Social Justice: Critical Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex, Vol. 27, No. 3 (2000). 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Sasha Abramsky
													Read MoreThis article is an edited excerpt from his upcoming book, Hard Time Blues: How politics built a prison nation, published by St. Martin's Press in January, 2002. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Paul Street
													Read MorePaul Street, “Race, Prison, and Poverty: The Race to Incarcerate in the Age of Correctional Keynesianism,” Z Magazine (May 2001), p. 26. 
											
											
												
												
												
												By: by Paul Street
													Read MoreStreet P. Dark Connections: Empire abroad, prisons at home. Z Magazine 2003; January: 41-45. |