Revolutionary Letters, by Diane di Prima
New Left
A group of poems by Diane di Prima that explore radical activism and social justice.
Diane di Prima
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
April-May 1968
mimeograph
poetry
The City Ordinance
White Panther Party
This document describes the repressive conditions in Boston toward leftist groups in the wake of the Weather Underground robbery of a bank in Brighton, Massachusetts. It also includes a poem by Diane di Prima.
In late-September of 1969, WU members Katherine Power, Susan Saxe, as well as two former convicts, William Gilday and Robert Velari, carrying handguns, a shotgun and a submachine gun. Gilday shot and killed Boston police officer Walter Schroeder when the police officer attempted to stop the robbery. The group escaped with $26,000 in cash, which they planned to use to finance an overthrow of the federal government.
White Panther Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1969
mimeograph
newsletter