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Uprising

By: Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly
Narrated by: Brad Sanders
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In September 1971, the bloodiest prison riot in American history took place in sleepy upstate New York town of Attica. Yet most of that blood was spilled not by the inmates who took over Attica Correctional Facility during four desperate days, but by the state's governor and future vice president Nelson Rockefeller.

This is the personal story of what those days were like, what went wrong, and how the tragedy at Attica holds up a mirror to America's dark treatment of its prison population. Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly, the authors of the acclaimed memoir Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation, take on the most urgent and least understood civil rights issue of today's society - prisoners' rights. Jones, the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s former attorney and draft speechwriter, now tells the personal story of his time battling and negotiating for the inmates' survival as one of the observers and requested by the inmates during the rebellion. But Uprising: Understanding Attica, Revolution, and the Incarceration State goes beyond memoir - Jones and Connelly use Attica as a touchstone for a clear-eyed critique of what has gone wrong with America's prison system over the last 40 years.

©2011 Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly (P)2014 Audible Inc.

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Wow

I watched the movie Attica. But woooooo this this is far more revealing, far more convincing, far more informative than I could have ever imagined. I’m a simple everyday middle class citizen no authority no power per say but this book has given me a sense of knowledge about this country I live in. Wow

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incredible man - we need more like you!

Folks, highly recommend this book as the first step in educating yourselves before you insist that your house and senate elections focus on how these changes would add $$ to taxes paid in, drastically reduce crime, and abolish the new type of slavery that no one seems to notice

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