Description
"Essential reading for those who would prefer to judge the Panther movement for themselves. --Library Journal
Here are Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and Fred Hampton; Kathleen Cleaver and other Panther women; the party's court battles and acquittals; its positions on black separatism, the power structure, the police, violence, and education; as well as songs, poems, and political cartoons. This is the story behind the Black Panthers.
Philip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States. A prolific author and editor, he tirelessly documented the lives of workers, African Americans, and political radicals.
Author: Philip S. Foner
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 03/25/2014
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781608463282
ISBN10: 1608463281
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
About the Author
Philip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States. A prolific author and editor, he tirelessly documented the lives of workers, African Americans, and political radicals. Shut out of academic employment for a quarter century because of his political affiliations, he nonetheless helped lay the basis for the explosion of scholarship in labor and black history during the past two decades.
Barbara Ransby is an historian, writer, and longtime political activist. Ransby has published dozens of articles and essays in popular and scholarly venues. She is most notably the author of an award-winning biography of civil rights activist Ella Baker, entitled Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, (University of North Carolina, 2003). She serves on the editorial board of the London-based journal, Race and Class, and a number of non-profit civic and media organizations.