Online Materials

From Attica

The 1971 Attica Demands, PDF courtesy of Voices of Detroit

MANIFESTO: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971, Attica Liberation Faction of 1971, Read online at the Black Agenda Report here.

2000 Attica Dinner Journal from a Reception honoring the Attica Brothers, National Lawyers Guild - NYC Chapter

Message from the late John Dunne, from his Grandson Sam, Courtesy of the Dunne Family and the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice

A Decade In Defense of Human Rights 1968-1978, the National Conference of Black Lawyers Report, Prepared by Lennox S. Hinds

Online Magazine/Newspaper articles

NYU Law and the Attica prison uprising, 50 years later, by NYU Law News

Attica: America’s infamous prison uprising is still a story about all of us, by Gabriel Pietrorazio, FingerLakes1.com, (9/17/2021)

Lifetimes of Legal Activism: The Attica Lawyers 50 Years Later, by Gabriel Pietrorazio, The News Station, (9/9/2021)

What really happened at Attica -- and why so much is still unknown (Guest Opinion by Joe Heath), by Joe Heath, Syracuse.com, (9/10/2021)

The Attica Prison Riot in 1971 Serves as a Reminder of the Dangers of a Failing Prison System by Shammara Lawrence, Teen Vogue (9/9/2020)

How a Series of Jail Rebellions Rocked New York and Woke a City by Heather Ann Thompson, The Nation (3/21/2019)

‘Attica Is Every Prison; and Every Prison Is Attica’ by David Fathi, ACLU (9/14/2018)

Heritage Moments: The Attica Prison Uprising — 43 dead and a four-decade cover-up by Jeff Z. Klein, NPR (9/10/2018)

Between Attica and Lee, interview by Amy Goodman with Heather Ann Thompson, Democracy Now! (8/23/2018)

Attica: It’s Worse Than We Thought by Heather Ann Thompson, New York Times (11/19/2017)

Attica Prison Uprising: Pulitzer Winning Historian Heather Thompson, Prosecutor Malcolm Bell to speak by Gary Craig, Democrat & Chronicle (9/7/2017)

The Long Tail of the Attica Prison Riot by J. Oliver Conroy, The Morning News (2/21/2017)

Understanding the Legacy of the Attica Prison Uprising by Lewis M. Steel, The Nation (9/26/2016)

The Riot and the Retaking, by Tom Meagher and Pedro Burgos, The Marshall Project (9/14/2016)

Attica’s Lessons Went Unlearned: Our Prisons Are Still a Disgrace by Heather Ann Thompson, Daily Beast (9/13/2016)

Remembering Attica, interview by Shawn Gude with Heather Ann Thompson, Jacobin (9/9/2016)

Lessons From The Attica Prison Uprising, 45 Years Later by Heather Ann Thompson, NBC News (9/9/2016)

Attica's Ghosts Haunt Prison System by Casey Seiler, Times Union, (9/8/2016)

Attica, Attica: The Story of the Legendary Prison Uprising by James Forman Jr., The New York Times (8/30/2016)

Revisiting Attica Shows How New York State Failed to Fulfill Promises by Michael Winerip, Tom Robbins, and Michael Schwirtz, The Marshall Project (8/25/2016)

Prying Loose the Long-Kept Secrets of Attica by Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times (8/23/2016)

The true story of the Attica prison riot by Larry Getlen, The New York Post (8/20/2016)

‘Blood in the Water,’ a Gripping Account of the Attica Prison Uprising by Mark Oppenheimer, The New York Times (8/18/2016)

Attica's Secrets Remain, 45 Years After Nation's Bloodiest Prison Riot, author says, by John O'Brien, Syracuse.com (5/29/2016)

September 9, 1971: Attica! by Richard Kreitner, The Nation (9/9/2015)

How Attica’s Ugly Past Is Still Protected by Heather Ann Thompson, Time (5/26/2015)

The Attica Turkey Shoot by Tom Robbins, The Marshall Project (5/26/2015)

Attica Annotated, The New York Times (2/28/2015)

Attica's Ghosts by Tom Robbins, The Marshall Project (2/28/2015)

Who Does the Freedom of Information Law Protect? Attica and the Code of State Silence by Heather Ann Thompson, Life of the Law (5/16/2014)

Empire State disgrace: The dark, secret history of the Attica Prison tragedy by Heather Ann Thompson, Salon (4/25/2014)

Forty Years After the Bloodiest Prison Uprising in US History, the Attica Cover-up Continues by Scott Christianson, The Nation (4/25/2014)

Free the Attica Report by The Editorial Board, The New York Times (4/23/2013)

Attica Must Be Shut Down by Soffiyah Elijah, City Limits (9/4/2012)

Attica Prison Uprising 101 - A Short Primer by Mariame Kaba, Project NIA (9/2011)

Postscripts to the Attica Story by Francis X. Clines, The New York Times (9/18/2011)

From Attica to Pelican Bay: How To Heed the Lessons of a Prison Uprising by Michael Ratner, The Nation (9/12/2011)

Rockefeller on the Attica Raid, From Boastful to Subdued by Sam Roberts, The New York Times (9/12/2011)

After Attica: Hope For Prisons? by Stephen Chinlund, The Nation (9/9/2011)

The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later by Francis Reynolds and Liliana Segura, The Nation (9/9/2011)

The Lingering Injustice of Attica by Heather Ann Thompson, The New York Times (9/8/2011)

Attica at 40 by Liliana Segura, The Nation (9/7/2011)

Sept. 9, 1971: Attica Prison Revolt Begins by George Hodak, ABA Journal (9/1/2011)

Attica Prison Uprising 101 by Seeta Persaud, Critical Mass Progress (8/24/2011)

Riot Attica Prison, HISTORY Channel (7/21/2010)

Massacre at Attica Prison, by History.com Editors, HISTORY Channel (3/3/2010)

The Attica Uprising by Heather Ann Thompson, Against the Current (1/2007)

Attica Endures: Walled-Off Facts From the Old Prison Riot by Francis X. Clines, The New York Times (9/17/2006)

To Victim of Attica, Settlement Is Apology by Joseph P. Fried, The New York Times (5/22/2005)

For Some New Yorkers, the Attica Uprising Is a Current Event by Francis X. Clines, The New York Times (1/19/2005)

Attica Group Accuses State of Foot-Dragging on Reparations by Winnie Hu, The New York Times (2/13/2003)

Attica's Forgotten Victims by Tom Wicker, The New York Times (9/23/2000)

COMPENSATION SET ON ATTICA UPRISING by David W. Chen, The New York Times (8/29/2000)

NYC; No Solace For Widow Of Attica by Clyde Haberman, The New York Times (2/22/2000)

Attica: Settled, But Not Healed by Tom Wicker, The New York Times (1/7/2000)

Settling the Attica Case, The New York Times (1/6/2000)

Echoes of Violence: Attica's Story Retold in Court, by William Glaberson, The New York Times (12/10/1991)

The Human Sewer, by Garry Wills, The New York Review (4/3/1975)

Inquiry on Attica Scores Governor Over 1971 Revolt; Report Says He Should Have Visited Site Before Order Was Given for Assault, by Michael T. Kaufman, The New York Times (9/13/1972)

Varied Sentiments Expressed On Prisons at Attica Hearings, by Michael T. Kaufman, The New York Times (5/11/1972)

Doctor Testifies on Attica Abuses: Surgeon and 3 Aides Tell of Seeing Guards Attack Wounded Inmates Surgeon Tells of Seeing Injured Beaten at Attica, by Michael T. Kaufman, The New York Times (4/8/1972)

William H. Schaap: Attica (Letter to the Editor), by William H. Schaap, The New York Review (3/9/1972)

Richard Arens: Attica (Letter to the Editor), by Richard Arens, The New York Review (11/4/1971)

Slaughter at Attica, by the Editors, The Nation (9/27/1971)

The Anatomy of the Laundry, by Samuel Melville, courtesy of Sam Melville.org

Attica at 40, by Bruce Jackson, Counter Punch (9/8/2011)

Public Secrets: The Hidden Reports on Attica and Guantanamo, Bruce Jackson, The Public, (11/10/2014)

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK After 17 Years, the Attica Trial Live, Andrew Yarrow, New York Times, (1/11/1992)