Black Panthers, 1968 / photographs by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones ; introduction by Kathleen Cleaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baruch, Ruth-Marion, 1922-1997.

Contributor:

Jones, Pirkle, 1914-2009.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Panther Party--History--Pictorial works.

Black Panther Party.

African Americans--California--Politics and government--20th century--Pictorial works.

African Americans.

Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.

Black militant organizations.

History.

Civil rights demonstrations.

Black nationalism.

Black power.

Race relations.

Politics and government.

California--Race relations--Pictorial works.

California.

Black power--California--History--20th century--Pictorial works.

Black nationalism--California--History--20th century--Pictorial works.

Civil rights demonstrations--California--History--20th century--Pictorial works.

Black militant organizations--California--History--20th century--Pictorial works.

Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : Greybull Press ; New York : Distributed by Distribution Art Publishers, 2002.

Summary:

In 1968, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover vilified the Black Panthers as the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States. That same year photographers Pirkle Jones and wife, Ruth-Marion Baruch, documented the Black Panthers for an exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Their hope was to expose the public to the Panthers as they saw them -- symbols of pride and strength -- rather than the way they were being portrayed in the media. Jones and Baruch were given unprecedented access to the inner circle of the Black Panther Party. At intimate meetings, family gatherings and public demonstrations, we witness, through these incredibly moving photographs, a unique crusade for dignity and self-definition. Black Panthers is a historic documentation of this fascinating movement, so challenging and controversial to our culture that it was virtually erased from established texts and American history books.

ISBN:

096723669X

OCLC:

53469728