A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement

by Kent Blansett

Book Overview

The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Indigenous rights movement

A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, D.C. The life of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300227817
• ISBN13: 9780300227819
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"