Shadow Of The Panther: Huey Newton And The Price Of Black Power In America
This assessment of the Black Panther Party and its most prominent early leader is the product of an editor and writer for Pacific News Service who was in grade school when the Panthers decided to pick up the gun. AlthoughShadow of the Pantheropens with the murder of a crack-addicted Newton in Oakland, California, in 1989, Pearson's subject is broader than Newton himself and the movement of which he became a symbol: Pearson's analysis places the Panthers in the context of African Americans' long struggle for civil rights and the late 1960s shift from King's commitment to nonviolence to Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's demand for black power; it also explores the Panthers' home ground in Oakland and the Bay Area and the impact of their geographic base on the appeal of the Panthers to white as well as black radicals. An interesting contribution to the continuing controversy over the Panthers and their legacy.Mary Carroll--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.