Black August Resistance
Black August originated in the California penal system as a response to state repression and murder inside of California’s “correctional” facilities.The historical and ideological foundations of Black August were formulated following the assassination of George Jackson in 1971.
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![Black August Revisited](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/27/1994Call Number: KP 194Format: DATProducers: Kiilu NyashaCollection: Black August Resistance
Interview by Kiilu Nyasha in 1994 with Alice Yerish, a journalist who wrote prolifically on political prisoners and the need for institutional prison reform in California State prison's throughout the 1970's. Primarily talks about her interaction with George Jackson, with whom Yerish maintained extensive contact in the months leading up to his assassination. Also addresses contemporary political prisoners such as Ruchell McGee.
![Black August Revisited](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interview with Ruchell McGee, political prisoner arrested in 1963 for a murder he did not commit. McGee, one of the longest held political prisoners, was convicted of kidnap and robbery in 1963 and sentenced to life in prison after a dispute over a $10 bag of marijuana. In the interview he speaks extensively about his two trials, the consolidation of his case with four others for crimes he was not originally charged with, as well as the brutal physical torture he endured leading up to his second trial.
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