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Most black prisoners would welcome prison reforms. But for those growing numbers who are becoming intransigently ideological, reforms may seem irrelevant, even a dangerous distraction from their goal of eliminating the "racist system." After George Jackson's death at San Quentin and after Attica, penologists wonder whether any reforms within the current prison framework would mollify such prisoners. "Their anger is not directed toward the prisons but toward society," says Peter Preiser, New York State's Director of Probation. "The problem of the militant inmates festers beneath everything we are trying...
...South, racist politicians tried to make capital of the busing issue by urging parents to boycott the schools. Surprisingly few did. Alabama Governor George Wallace, for instance, visited a suburb of Mobile one day last week to plead with parents to resist busing "because it is not fair to arbitrarily bus these children." Despite Wallace's speech, more than 85% of Mobile's public school children showed up for classes, carrying out a busing program developed during the summer by Harold Collins, the aggressive superintendent of Mobile's board of education, and various community groups. In Nashville...
...American penal system that Jackson sought to make in life. "There will be a special page in the book of life for the men who have crawled back from the grave," he wrote his mother in 1966. To Jackson the grave was the life of black people in a racist society, the prison a kind of cemetery for the not yet dead, and the journey back from both could only be made through violent revolution. "All the gentle, shy characteristics of the black man have been wrung unceremoniously from my soul. The buffets and blows of this have and have...
...brother Jonathan in last year's shootout at the Marin County Courthouse? Radicals and quite a few liberals, regardless of race, would emphatically answer yes. More than that, many would contend that all black prisoners in American jails are political prisoners in the sense that a "racist," white-dominated political and economic system has condemned them, in their poverty and blackness, to lives of crime...
...liberal and active winners. By the early 1960s she was working for the N.A.A.C.P., CORE and SANE. Much to the dismay of pageant managers, she was on the picket line at the first lunch-counter sit-ins in 1960. She denounced the events in Atlantic City as not only racist but also antifeminist. After her husband, Millionaire Matthew Fox, died in 1964, Yolande moved to Washington, D.C., where she fell in love with a foreign diplomat-an ongoing romance she describes as "neatsy...