Blue Rage, Black Redemption A Memoir

Name: Blue Rage, Black Redemption A Memoir
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ISBN: 9781416544494

ISBN-10: 1416544496

ISBN-13: 9781416544494

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, Barbara Becnel, Barbara Becnel

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A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who went from Crips co-founder to Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and antigang activist When his L.A. neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Crips, but what began as protection became worse than the original gangs. From deadly street fights with their rivals to drive-by shootings and stealing cars, the Crips' influence -- and Tookie's reputation -- began to spread across L.A. Soon he was regularly under police surveillance, and, as a result, was arrested often, though always released because the charges did not stick. But in 1981, Tookie was convicted of murdering four people and was…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 11/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Stanley Tookie Williams, activist and author, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times and the Nobel Prize in literature four times. He is the only man in history to be nominated while imprisoned. He was executed in 2005.



Foreword




Blue Rage



Born in the Bayou



South Central



Sibling Feud



Hallelujah, Hallelujah



The Art of Dys-education



Voodoo Medicine



Stepfamily



Adolescent Blues



Point of No Return



The Institutional Shuffle



Seeds of a Gang



Crip Walk



The Criplettes



Tookie's Law



Boys Republic to Factor Brookins



Mr. Buddha! Mr. Buddha!



Compton Ambassador



Straddling the Fence



Invincibility Shot Down



The Big Comeback



The Old Stomping Ground



Float On, Float On, Float On



Schemes and Things



Living the Funk



The Longest Day



Rage of Another Kind



Black Redemption



The Missing Years



Inside the Beast



Things Happen



Change Will Come



Trials, Tribulations



Let There Be Light



Human Angel



Moto Ndani (The Fire Within)



Redemption...Step Forward



A Woman Called Mother Africa



Black Phoenix Rising



Sons of the Father


Afterthoughts


Epilogue



Special Acknowledgments


The Tookie Protocol for Peace: A Local Street Peace Initiative