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From the bullet to the ballot : the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and racial coalition politics in Chicago / Jakobi Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Jakobi.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black power--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Black power.
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Politics and government--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--1951-.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.
- Black Panther Party. Illinois Chapter.
- Black Panther Party.
- Hampton, Fred, 1948-1969.
- Hampton, Fred.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president of the NAACP Youth Council and continued to pursue a civil rights agenda when he became chairman of the revolutionary Chicago-based Black Panther Party. Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, fo
- Contents:
- Introduction : the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party speaks for itself
- The political and social climate of Black Chicago, 1900-1970
- The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party
- Chicago and Oakland : a comparative analysis of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and national headquarters
- The original rainbow coalition
- Law enforcement repression and the assassination of chairman Fred Hampton
- The legacy of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798893130386
- 9798890842688
- 9781469608174
- 1469608170
- 9781469608167
- 1469608162
- OCLC:
- 843191923
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