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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817888103321

Autore

Alkebulan Paul

Titolo

Survival pending revolution [[electronic resource] ] : the history of the Black Panther Party / / Paul Alkebulan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8173-8029-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Disciplina

322.4/20973

Soggetti

Revolutionaries - United States - History - 20th century

Radicalism - United States - History - 20th century

African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

United States Race relations Political aspects History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; Prologue; 1. The Heirs of Malcolm; 2. Survival Pending Revolution; 3. Regional Development of the Black Panther Party; 4. Enemies of the People; 5. Women and the Black Panther Party; 6. Decline and Fall; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographic Essay; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Black Panther Party (BPP) seized the attention of America in the frenetic days of the late 1960's when a series of assassinations, discontent with the Vietnam War, and impatience with lingering racial discrimination roiled the United States, particularly its cities. The BPP inspired dread among the American body politic while receiving support from many urban black youths. The images of angry and armed young black radicals in the streets of U.S. cities seemed a stunning reversal and repudiation of the accommodationist and assimilationist black goals associated with Martin Luther King's