Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom with Waldo E. Martin Jr.

504 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 righ...

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