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Nation of Law?, A (1968-71)
- 1990 ----- color ----- 58 min ----- vhs
- (Eyes on the Prize II series, Part 6) In Chicago, Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are killed during an early morning raid by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant. In the wake of President Nixon's call to "law and order," stepped-up arrests push the already poor conditions at New York's Attica prison to the limit. Inmates take over the prison in an effort to attract national attention to intolerable conditions. A subsequent police assault ends the takeover but not before 43 men are dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by police. These events come to symbolize the violence of a hardened political regime.
- Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Afro-American, History: American, Sociology)
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