Open Media Series
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Open Media Series

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eBook - ePub

Open Media Series

About this book

Essential radical texts by enslaved, jailed, and imprisoned Americans, edited by renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and activist-scholar Jennifer Black.

"Filled with insight and energy, this extraordinary book gifts us the opportunity to encounter people's understanding of the fight for freedom from the inside out." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag and Abolition Geography

"Martin Luther King told us what he saw when he went to the mountaintop....But there's also the foot of the mountain, and there are also the regions beneath the surface. I want to try to tell you a little something about those regions." —Angela Y. Davis, author of Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Beneath the Mountain is a reader's guide for understanding the evolution of anti-prison tenets. This essential core of primary texts provides an arc of insurgent writings by dissidents and revolutionaries who experienced incarceration and state terror first-hand. With contributions from John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Crazy Horse, to Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, and Leonard Peltier, it also includes a previously unpublished communiqué from Angela Davis, written from jail at the time when she was forging the anti-prison critique that has since inspired a national movement.

Beneath the Mountain offers a record of the historic foundations for the contemporary abolition movement. What emerges from these texts is an emancipatory vision that inspires the work being done today, a vision centered on organizing and solidarity as an antidote to repression. An invaluable resource for readers on both sides of prison walls, this compendium of resistance and hard-won vision will be essential to all who seek to develop an abolitionist critique and to further an understanding of the nature of repression and liberation.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Ona “Oney” Judge Staines
  7. 2. Nat Turner
  8. 3. John Brown
  9. 4. Frederick Douglass
  10. 5. Crazy Horse
  11. 6. Eugene Debs
  12. 7. Geronimo
  13. 8. Mother Jones
  14. 9. Nicola Sacco
  15. 10. Angelo Herndon
  16. 11. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
  17. 12. Martin Luther King Jr.
  18. 13. Malcolm X
  19. 14. Elijah Muhammad
  20. 15. George Jackson
  21. 16. Angela Davis
  22. 17. Martin Sostre
  23. 18. Assata Shakur
  24. 19. Rita Bo Brown
  25. 20. Safiya Asya Bukhari
  26. 21. Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans
  27. 22. Mumia Abu-Jamal
  28. 23. PBSP-SHU Short Corridor Collective
  29. 24. Russell “Maroon” Shoatz
  30. 25. Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
  31. 26. Chelsea Manning
  32. 27. Leonard Peltier
  33. 28. Free Alabama Movement
  34. 29. Ed Mead
  35. 30. Safear Ness
  36. 31. Saleem Holbrook
  37. Afterword, by Julia Wright
  38. Acknowledgments
  39. Endnotes
  40. Sources and Permissions
  41. About the Editors
  42. Back Cover