Recs if you like The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther...

history you probably didn't learn in school

All of the books listed here are introductory texts for Prison Abolition. The books on this list need no prior knowledge and are all great starting points for understanding prison abolition. You will find personal accounts, journalistic and essay books, as well as accessible analyses and histories of policing/incarceration

This list is the why of abolition

Books specifically about the lives and deaths of members of the Black Panther Party, government led assassination plots, the processes the US created to take down the flourishing community created by the Black Panther Party, and the histories of the BPP through the words of multiple members.

Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys wanna make some bacon?

Created by a surviving family member of a police-sanctioned lynching.

books to change how you understand history, protest, and survival

A more relevant topic than ever, let's learn from Indigenous and Black communities

ACAB