Days of Rage (88 page)

ACLU, 397

acupuncture, 452–53

Addiction Services Agency (ASA), 465–66

African Blood Brotherhood, 29

Agnew, Spiro, 98, 415

Albany Times-Union,
224

Algeria, 147, 158, 188–89, 195, 200–201, 208, 209, 236, 453–54

Cleaver in, 147, 184–88, 192, 194–95, 200, 255, 262, 453

Alioto, Joseph, 293

Allard, Alain, 12–14

Alpert, Jane, 7, 9–20, 22, 25, 157, 311

arrest of, 24

Alpert, Stew, 164

Altamont, 85

American Bicentennial, 381, 433, 434
n

Americans for Justice, 353, 357

America’s Most Wanted,
547

A.M. San Francisco,
186

Amsterdam News,
34, 253

Anderson, Helen, 476–78

Anderson, Jack, 153

Anderson, Ronald, 206, 239–40

Anderson, Terry H., 156

apocalyptic revolutionaries, 61–65, 67, 68, 261

Archambault, Daniel, 498–99

Archuleta, Pedro, 380, 385, 395–96, 403, 459

Armed Resistance Unit, 544

Armed Revolutionary Independence Movement,
see
MIRA

Armstrong, Gregory, 266

Armstrong, Neil, 412

Arnold, Michael, 481

ASA (Addiction Services Agency), 465–66

Ashbrook, Travis, 143

Assata Shakur Defense Committee, 364, 457

Associated Press, 318, 319, 329, 331, 332, 346

Astor, Gerald M., 244–45

Atlanta, Ga., 203–7, 238, 239

Attica Prison, 224, 390, 415–16

attorneys,
see
lawyers

Atwood, Angela (“General Gelina”), 277, 283, 285, 291, 294, 299, 303, 305, 306–7

Augustin, Kirk, 118–19

August Seventh Guerrilla Movement, 275

Austin, Curtis J., 50

Autobiography of Malcolm X, The
(Malcolm X and Haley), 37, 262

Avis, 279

Axelrod, Beverly, 46–47

Ayers, Bill, 56, 66, 69, 70, 72–74, 77–79, 82–85, 88, 91–100, 104, 113–14, 116, 117, 128, 135, 136, 140, 141, 145, 158, 160–62, 166, 167, 177, 220, 231, 289, 310, 311, 361, 362, 366, 369, 370, 372, 495–96, 539, 540

bombings and, 96–99, 103, 123

Dohrn’s relationship with, 222, 226–27

false identities and theft and, 91–92, 116

Fugitive Days,
82–83, 220, 231–32

Mellis family and, 226, 227, 310

on Pentagon bombing, 231–32

Prairie Fire
and, 312, 313, 390

on Robbins’s bomb ideas, 82–83

at summit meeting, 120–22

surrender of, 496

Weatherman paper and, 67

Ayers, Rick, 117, 147, 160, 161, 219, 223, 227, 303, 310, 365

BAAANA (Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America), 492–93, 498, 501

Bacon, Leslie, 164

Balagoon, Kuwasi (Donald Weems), 498, 500–503, 512, 543

Baldwin, James, 33, 34

Banco de Ponce, 317, 331

Baraldini, Silvia, 191, 254, 316, 364, 365, 368, 372–73, 452, 457–59, 467–68, 471, 475, 478, 493, 498, 500, 501, 504, 538, 543

arrest of, 512

Brink’s robbery and, 510

Shakur and, 457–58, 467–68

Barbagelata, John, 348, 352, 357

Barnes, Nicky, 190

Barrett, Richie, 529–30

Bates, Charles, 343

Battle of Algiers, The,
63, 72, 79

Bay Area Research Collective (BARC), 307–8, 342, 355

BCA (Black Culture Association), 272–73, 277

Beame, Abraham, 401–2, 466

Beatty, Warren, 367

Beaty, Ronald, 262

Beckwith, Horace, 233–34, 376, 378

Bell, Griffin, 377–79

Bell, Herman, 203, 251, 542

Bellow, Saul, 388

Bentley, Alvin M., 325

Berger, Alex, 321, 322

Berkeley, Calif., 95–97, 260, 274–75, 305–8

Berkeley Tribe,
122, 128

Berkowitz, David (“Son of Sam”), 398–99, 401–2

Bernstein, Carl, 497

Bernstein, Leonard, 183

Bethea, Cleave, 241

Betty, Melvin, 252

Bicentennial, 381, 433, 434
n

Big Dance, The
(Castellucci), x

Big T Lounge, 241–42

Binetti, Nicholas, 174, 176, 191, 192, 207, 542

Bishop, Cameron, 420–24, 425–26

Bishop, Mary, 420–22, 425, 426

Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA), 492–93, 498, 501

Black Armed Guard, 30

Blackburn, Robert, 279–80

Black Culture Association (BCA), 272–73, 277

Black Guerrilla Family, 261

Black House, 47

Black Liberation Army (BLA), x, 4, 27, 46, 94, 259, 260, 279, 368, 426, 448, 450, 454, 458, 459, 474, 493, 494, 542

in Atlanta, 203–7, 238, 239

banks robbed by, 202, 204–5, 209

Beck Street cell of, 189–90, 202, 238

in Big T Lounge incident, 241–42

birth of, 173–98

Black Panthers and, 178, 189–90

Carter cell in, 207–10, 214–15

Chesimard on, 173

Cleaver and, 192–96, 200, 209

confusion about, 177–78

consolidation of, 200

decentralized structure of, 177, 194, 214

drug dealers and social clubs robbed by, 190, 197, 200–201

FBI and, 177, 178, 196–98, 202, 203, 206–7, 217, 239, 240, 249–51, 253–54

final months of, 237–55

first recruits of, 189

Foster-Laurie murders and, 210–14, 217, 239, 255

grenade thrown at officers by, 208–9

Imperato shootings and, 242–43

in June 1971 to February 1972, 199–217

Napier’s murder and, 190–91, 494

NYPD and, 174–78, 181, 191, 192, 195–98, 200, 203, 207–14, 217, 238–46, 248, 249, 251–55

in Plate-Steward incident, 191, 237

police officers targeted by, 174–78, 181, 191, 192, 195–98, 200, 203, 205–17, 497

rise of, 199–217

St. Louis shoot-out and, 215–17, 240

silence of, 217

Thomas’s cell in, 202–7, 209

training camp of, 202–4, 239

see also specific members

Black Liberation Army Strike Force, 178

Black Liberation Front, 178

black militancy, 29–52

Black Muslims:

prisons and, 261

see also
Nation of Islam

black nationalism, 33–34, 36, 38, 181

Black Panther,
47, 49, 196

Black Panthers, 4, 10, 27, 38, 42–52, 68, 69, 73, 90, 113, 142, 181, 261, 268, 271, 278, 279, 288, 451, 453, 458, 542

Algeria and,
see
Algeria

Black Liberation Army and, 178, 189–90

in Chicago, 76

FBI and, 49, 50, 84, 184, 186, 188, 200

Foster’s murder and, 280

guns carried by, 44, 48

international section of, 184, 185

New York, 179, 181–84, 186–89, 195, 196

Panther 21 group, 21, 100, 159, 174, 183, 188, 191, 288, 450, 452, 454, 457

police targeted by, 181–82, 184

splitting of, 45–47, 178–79, 186–88, 193, 196

ten-point program of, 43

in underground, 189, 200

Weathermen and, 76, 94, 159–60

Webb’s murder and, 187–89

West Coast, 181, 183, 186–89

Black Power, 39–42, 46, 47, 49–51, 58, 178

blacks, 26–52, 68, 124, 159–60

civil rights movement and, 27–29, 31, 34, 38–39, 42, 57–61

Blood in My Eye
(Jackson), 268–69

Bocca, Brian, 490–91

bombings, 4, 10–11, 26–27, 67, 96–97, 113, 148–51, 154–55, 231, 260, 306, 334, 353, 397, 447, 539

by Armed Resistance Unit, 544

dynamite regulations and, 151

by FALN,
see
FALN bombings

fatalities from, 5

frequency and number of, 5

in Madison at University of Wisconsin, 148–49, 155

by Melville, 10, 12, 14–24, 27, 317
n

by MIRA, 326–27, 381

by New World Liberation Front,
see
New World Liberation Front bombings

in New York City,
see
New York, N.Y., bombings in

by Picariello, 432–33

public attitudes toward, 5–6

by Sam Melville Jonathan Jackson unit, 407–8, 430–38, 441, 442

security measures and, 130, 164

by Symbionese Liberation Army, 339–41, 345

threats of, 150

by United Freedom Front, 407–8, 430–38, 441–42, 513, 524–25, 530

by Weatherman,
see
Weatherman bombings