Ep. 180 Fifty Years After Attica with Heather Ann Thompson
Today we are joined by Pulitzer Prize winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, Heather Ann Thompson. We discuss her process in researching and writing this epic civil rights story, and the legacy of the uprising 50 years later.
The Stacks Book Club selection for September is Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson. We will discuss the book with Derecka Purnell on Wednesday September 29th.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
Whose Detroit? by Heather Ann Thompson
"Movie in the Works on Attica Prison Riots Legal Fight" (Dave McNary, Yahoo Finance)
"Ernest Goodman, 90, Civil Rights Lawyer" (The New York Times)
Blood in my Eye by George L. Jackson
Attica (Stanley Nelson, 2021)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
Bullet and Burn by Heather Ann Thompson
"Discovery of Bones From MOVE Bombing Jolts Philadelphia Once Again" (Michael Levenson, The New York Times)
America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
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