Title Black against empire : the history and politics of the Black Panther Party / Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr

Published Oakland : University of California Press : University of California Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 539 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits Contents 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 Summary 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 Notes "With a new preface." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 12, 2016) Subject Black Panther Party -- History SUBJECT Black Panther Party fast Subject African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy. HISTORY -- African American. African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Politics and government Civil rights movements Race relations Race relations -- Political aspects SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Martin, Waldo E., 1951- author. ISBN 9780520966451 0520966457

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