"The Dignity and Justice That Is Due to Us by Right of Our Birth" : Violence and Rights in the 1971 Attica Riot

Attica was the scene of one of the most notorious prison riots in American history, in which thirty-nine people (twenty-nine inmates and ten hostages) were killed when Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered the state police to retake the institution. The events at Attica did not occur within a vacuum....

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Published in:Harvard civil rights-civil liberties law review 2014-03, Vol.49 (2), p.531
Main Author: Mamo, Andrew B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American history
Civil rights
Justice
Political activism
Violence
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Summary:Attica was the scene of one of the most notorious prison riots in American history, in which thirty-nine people (twenty-nine inmates and ten hostages) were killed when Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered the state police to retake the institution. The events at Attica did not occur within a vacuum. The late 1960s and early 1970s were a period in which the use of rights language was expanding to even the most marginalized communities, stimulated by the legacy of the civil rights movement and by ties to both the nascent international human rights movement and to the growth of political movements like Black Power.
ISSN:0017-8039
1943-5061