The Black Panthers speak
By: edited by Philip S. Foner ; with a new foreword by Clayborne Carson.
Contributors: Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-; Carson, Clayborne, 1944-
Edition: 2nd Da Capo Press ed.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Black Panther Party; African American political activists; Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; Black militant organizations -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969; United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974
Genres: Sources.
Description: From its founding by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, the Black Panther Party has aroused year, hope, misunderstanding, pride and vilification. In The Black Panthers Speak, the best single source of original material on and by the Black Panther Party, Philip S. Foner separates philosophy from propaganda. The essential documents of the Party are all here, including "What We Want, What We Believe," Newton and Seale's seminal treatise, which became a standard to gauge society's progress. With their passionate demands, Seale and Newton succinctly captured the revolutionaly spirit and aspirations of many American blacks in the 1960s and 1970s. Foner includes illuminating excerpts from The Black Panther, the newspaper that proved so instrumental in the Party's rapid growth and development. His careful selection of cartoons, original flyers, and articles by members of various ranks allows a glimpse inte the black consciousness of the late 1960s, as do the voices of Panther leaders Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard, Fred Hampton, and Erica Huggins.
Notes: "This Da Capo paperback edition of The Black Panthers Speak is an unabridged republication of the edition originally published in New York in 1970, with the addition of the article "On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver ..." by Huey P. Newton and a foreword by Clayborne Carson."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.