The Huey P. Newton Reader
This is the first collection of writings by the founder of the  Black Panther Party since his death in 1989. Ten of the 36  selections were published in To Die for the People, an earlier  collection released in 1972; the remainder were written after  that publication. The book represents the many transformations  of Newton's and the party's political ideologies and  motivations, including support of the feminist and gay rights  movements. Between the opening coverage of how and why Newton  and Bobby Seale mobilized the black community to support a  program of armed self-defense to the closing excerpts from  Newton's Ph.D. dissertation outlining the FBI's COINTELPRO  activities to dismantle the Black Panther Party are passionate  and captivating writings that reveal a widely read political  theorist committed to putting theory into practice to make a  better world. This book is essential reading and primary-source  research material for understanding the Black Panther Party,  grass-roots organizing at its best, and the black power  movement. Suitable for public and academic libraries. Sherri  Barnes, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara Libs.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.