Nine lives of a Black Panther
Subtitle: a story of survival
By: Wayne Pharr
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781613749166
Subjects: Social life and customs; Race relations; Criminals; Police-community relations; Civil rights; African American political activists; Black Panther Party. Southern California Chapter; Black Panther Party; Political violence; African Americans; African American youth; Biography; History
Description: "In the early morning hours of December 8, 1969, hundreds of SWAT officers engaged in a violent battle with a handful of Los Angeles-based members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). Five hours and 5,000 rounds of ammunition later, three SWAT team members and three Black Panthers lay wounded. For the Panthers and the community that supported them, the shootout symbolized a victory, and a key reason for that victory was the actions of a 19-year-old rank-and-file member of the BPP: Wayne Pharr. Nine Lives of a Black Panther tells Pharr's riveting story of life in the Los Angeles branch of the BPP and gives a blow-by-blow account of how it prepared for and survived the massive attack. He illuminates the history of one of the most dedicated, dynamic, vilified, and targeted chapters of the BPP, filling in a missing piece of Black Panther history and, in the process, creating an engaging and hard-to-put-down memoir about a time and place that holds tremendous fascination for readers interested in African American militancy"--
Notes: Includes index.