Black revolutionaries : a history of the Black Panther Party/ Joe Street.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Street, Joe, author.

Series:

Since 1970

Since 1970 : histories of contemporary America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Panther Party--History.

Black Panther Party.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

History of the Black Panther Party

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party, one of the emblematic organizations of the 1960s. It highlights the complexity of the BPP's history through three key themes: the BPP's intellectual history, its political and social activism, and the persecution its members endured. Together, these themes confirm the BPP's importance for understanding Black America's response to white oppression in the 1960s and 1970s. Based on a wealth of archival material, it reveals the enduring importance of leftist political philosophy to 1960s and 1970s radicalism, and how BPP helps us understand more deeply the role of public space and public protest in the 1960s, the transformation of political activism in the post-civil rights era, the psychological and organizational impact of FBI surveillance, police repression, and prison on its victims, and particularly that the latter both helped to shape and destroy the BPP. Most significant, it demonstrates that an understanding of African American grassroots politics and protest, racial injustice, and police brutality in the post-civil rights era is only comprehensible through engagement with the BPP's history. This is the definitive study of the BPP for students, academics, and the general reader"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Black Panther Party's intellectual territory

The gendered world of the Black Panther Party

Black Panther political philosophy

The BPP in the street

The BPP's social programs and local chapters

The Cal-Pac boycott

Bobby Seale for mayor!

The trial of Huey P. Newton

The FBI and the BPP

The prison and the (un)making of the BPP

Remembering the BPP.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 20, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Street, Joe. Black revolutionaries

ISBN:

0820366978

9780820366968

082036696X

0820374571

9780820374574

9780820366975

OCLC:

1424746800

Publisher Number:

CIPO000142224

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license