Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons.

Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons ar…

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