Historian Heather Ann Thompson discusses her new book, 'Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.'

She tells PW Radio, "There was a great deal of important civil rights activism in the 1970s," adding, "The state knew the retaking of Attica was going to be a bloodbath."

The Attica uprising in New York State, according to Thompson, "is a David and Goliath story...Attica's prisoners became political because of the state's brutality."

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