Black against empire : the history and politics of the Black Panther Party /
Bloom, Joshua,
Black against empire : the history and politics of the Black Panther Party / Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr. - Oakland : University of California Press : (c)2016. University of California Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xvi, 539 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
"With a new preface."
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780520966451
Black Panther Party--History.
African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .B533 2016
Black against empire : the history and politics of the Black Panther Party / Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr. - Oakland : University of California Press : (c)2016. University of California Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xvi, 539 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
"With a new preface."
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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.
9780520966451
Black Panther Party--History.
African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .B533 2016