Review: Searing moments of American truths in `Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power´
(LA Times Books)

On Sept. 13, 1971, the deadliest prison upheaval in American history came to a blood-spattered end just east of Buffalo, N.Y., with more than 40 prisoners and employees dead at the notorious Attica Correctional Facility. Prisoner demands for humane treatment were met with an institutional show...