Neal Shirley: Neal Shirley grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he is involved in several anti-prison initiatives. He writes and reprints important works on self-defense, history, and political theory through a small publishing project called the North Carolina Piece Corps. Saralee Stafford: Saralee Stafford was born in the Piedmont of North Carolina. Her recent political work has focused on connecting the struggles of street organizations with those of anarchists in the area. She currently works in the service industry while studying and teaching gender-related health in Durham, NC.
1. Introductory Notes
2. A Subtle Yet Restless Fire: Attacking Slavery from the Dark Fens of the
Great Dismal
3. Ogeechee Til Death: Expropriation and Communization in Lowcountry
Georgia
4. The Lowry Wars: Attacking Reconstruction and Reaction in Robeson County,
NC
5. The Stockade Stood Burning: Rebellion and the Convict Lease in
Tennessee's Coalfields
6. Wild Hearts in the Southern Mills: Women in the Strike Wave Against the
Textile Industry, 1929-1930
7. From Rebel to Citizen and Back Again: Civil Rights, Black Power, and
Urban Riots in the New South
8. We Asked for Life! On the 1975 Revolt at the North Carolina Correctional
Center for Women
9. Concluding Notes
