Days of rage : America's radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence
Title:
Days of rage : America's radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence
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ISBN:
9781594204296
Physical Description:
xx, 585 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Prologue -- "The revolution ain't tomorrow. It's now. You dig?" : Sam Melville and the birth of the American underground -- "Negroes with guns" : Black rage and the road to revolution -- Weatherman. -- "You say you want a revolution" : the Movement and the emergence of Weatherman -- "As to killing people, we were prepared to do that" : Weatherman, January to March 1970 -- The Townhouse : Weatherman, March to June 1970 -- "Responsible terrorism" : Weatherman, June 1970 to October 1970 -- The wrong side of history : Weatherman and the FBI, October 1970 to April 1971 -- The Black Liberation Army. -- "An army of angry niggas" : the birth of the Black Liberation Army, Spring 1971 -- The rise of the BLA : the Black Liberation Army, June 1971 to February 1972 -- "We got pretty small" : the Weather Underground and the FBI, 1971-72 -- Blood in the streets of Babylon : The Black Liberation Army, 1973 -- The second wave. -- The dragon unleashed : the rise of the Symbionese Liberation Army : November 1973 to February 1974 -- "Patty has been kidnapped" : the Symbionese Liberation Army, February to May 1974 -- What Patty Hearst wrought : the rise of the post-SLA underground -- "The Belfast of North America" : Patty Hearst, the SLA, and the Mad Bombers of San Francisco -- Hard times : the death of the Weather Underground -- "Welcome to Fear City" : the FALN, 1976 to 1978 -- "Armed revolutionary love" : the odyssey of Ray Levasseur -- Bombs and diapers : Ray Levasseur's odyssey, part II -- Out with a bang. -- The Family : the Pan-Radical Alliance, 1977 to 1979 -- Jailbreaks and captures : the Family and the FALN, 1979-80 -- The scales of justice : trials, surrenders, and the Family, 1980-81 -- The last revolutionaries : the United Freedom Front, 1981 to 1984.
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Summary:
An account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and America's revolutionary counterculture documents terrorist activities stemming from radical beliefs, tracing the stories of such groups as the Weathermen and the Black Liberation Army.