A review by capps
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis

5.0

An essential book for those interested in deepening their understanding of Prison Industrial Complex abolition. The authors—many of whom were actively incarcerated—provide an invaluable (and intimately familiar) glimpse at the criminal punishment system of America of the early 1970s. The title is adapted from a letter from James Baldwin to Angela Davis—which is itself an adaptation of the historic “First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a communist” poem—and serves as a driving thesis of the book: “If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.”