Black against empire : the history and politics of the Black Panther Party
Joshua Bloom (Author), Waldo E. Martin (Author)
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities. In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within
eBook, English, 2016
University of California Press : University of California Press, Oakland, 2016
History
1 online resource (xvi, 539 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
9780520966451, 0520966457
957772989
Introduction
Part 1. Organizing rage. Huey and Bobby ; Policing the police
Part 2. Baptism in blood. The correct handling of a revolution ; Free Huey! ; Martyrs ; National uprising
Part 3. Resilience. Breakfast ; Law and order ; 41st and Central ; Hampton and Clark ; Bobby and Ericka
Part 4. Revolution has come! Black studies and Third World liberation ; Vanguard of the New Left ; International alliance
Part 5. Concessions and unraveling. Rupture ; The limits of heroism
"With a new preface."
In English