From the bullet to the ballot
Subtitle: the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and racial coalition politics in Chicago
By: by Jakobi Williams
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780807838167
Subjects: Politics and government; Race relations; Black power; Black Panther Party; Civil rights; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Black Panther Party. Illinois Chapter; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party speaks for itself; title: The political and social climate of Black Chicago, 1900-1970; title: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party; title: Chicago and Oakland : a comparative analysis of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and national headquarters; title: The original rainbow coalition; title: Law enforcement repression and the assassination of chairman Fred Hampton; title: The legacy of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party.