An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle

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Sundiata Acoli's primary essay on the history of the New Afrikan Prison Movement — the political and organizational tradition of Black political prisoners in U.S. state and federal custody developed from the late 1960s onward. Covers the 1960s-1970s prison rebellions (Attica, San Quentin, Folsom), the BLA-era prisoner cohort, the founding of the Republic of New Afrika in 1968, the development of New Afrikan political identity inside, and the long-running campaign for recognition of New Afrikans as a colonized people. A canonical reference text for movement prisoner-support practice.