Strictly Ghetto Property: The Story of Los Siete de la Raza

Berkeley CA: Ramparts Press. Near Fine in Good+ dj. (c.1972). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean book, with faint wear to extremities only; jacket is edgeworn, a bit rubbed and scuffed (especially along spine panel), with a few tiny nicks and closed tears along top edge of rear panel, tiny chip at bottom of front panel]. (B&W photographs) The story of the case of seven young Latino men from San Francisco's Mission District who were charged with murder as a result of a violent incident that left one police officer dead. The trial was "a pivotal event in the law-and-order backlash that followed the college uprisings of 1968-69," and ended with all the youths being acquitted. The book "goes behind the immediate events and explores the full background -- the ghetto experience, the student uprisings, early contacts with brown revolutionaries and the Black Panther party -- that made the Los Siete incident a key political event." Issued in both paperback and hardcover, with the latter considerably harder to find. .