Days of rage: America's radical underground, the FBI, and the forgotten age of revolutionary violence 9780143107972, 0143107976

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Table of contents :
Prologue --
"The revolution ain't tomorrow. It's now. You dig?": Sam Melville and the birth of the American underground --
"Negroes with guns": Black rage and the road to revolution --
Weatherman. --
"You say you want a revolution": The Movement and the emergence of Weatherman --
"As to killing people, we were prepared to do that": Weatherman, January to March 1970 --
The Townhouse: Weatherman, March to June 1970 --
"Responsible terrorism": Weatherman, June 1970 to October 1970 --
The wrong side of history: Weatherman and the FBI, October 1970 to April 1971 --
The Black Liberation Army. --
"An army of angry niggas": The birth of the Black Liberation Army, Spring 1971 --
The rise of the BLA: The Black Liberation Army, June 1971 to February 1972 --
"We got pretty small": The Weather Underground and the FBI, 1971-72 --
Blood in the streets of Babylon: The Black Liberation Army, 1973 --
The second wave. --
The dragon unleashed: The rise of the Symbionese Liberation Army : November 1973 to February 1974 --
"Patty has been kidnapped": The Symbionese Liberation Army, February to May 1974 --
What Patty Hearst wrought: The rise of the post-SLA underground --
"The Belfast of North America": Patty Hearst, the SLA, and the Mad Bombers of San Francisco --
Hard times: The death of the Weather Underground --
"Welcome to Fear City": The FALN, 1976 to 1978 --
"Armed revolutionary love": The odyssey of Ray Levasseur --
Bombs and diapers: Ray Levasseur's odyssey, part II --
Out with a bang. --
The Family: The Pan-Radical Alliance, 1977 to 1979 --
Jailbreaks and captures: The Family and the FALN, 1979-80 --
The scales of justice: Trials, surrenders, and the Family, 1980-81 --
The last revolutionaries: The United Freedom Front, 1981 to 1984.

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