Revolution in our time : the Black Panther Party's promise to the people

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Label

Revolution in our time : the Black Panther Party's promise to the people

Title remainder

the Black Panther Party's promise to the people

Statement of responsibility

Kekla Magoon

Creator

• Magoon, Kekla

Author

• Magoon, Kekla

Subject

• African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Black Panther Party
• Black Panther Party -- History
• Black people -- History
• Black power
• Black power -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• 1900-1999
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• History
• United States
• United States -- History -- 20th century
• Blacks
• African Americans -- Civil rights | History -- 20th century

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members--mostly women--and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens"--Publisher

Awards note

A Junior Library Guild selection.

Cataloging source

HQD

Dewey number

323.1196/07309046

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

• Ages 12-UP
• 7th Grade-Up

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

pre adolescent