Up Against the Wall Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party

Name: Up Against the Wall Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party
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ISBN: 9781557288752

ISBN-10: 1557288755

ISBN-13: 9781557288752

Edition: 2008

Authors: Curtis J. Austin, Elbert "Big Man" Howard

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Curtis J. Austin's Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another--Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley--left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the party's early emphasis in the 1960s on self-defense, though sorely needed in black communities at the time, left it open to mischaracterization, infiltration, and devastation by local, state, and federal police forces and government agencies. Austin carefully highlights the internal tension between advocates of a more radical position…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication date: 3/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.18" wide x 8.86" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Curtis J. Austin is an associate professor of history and codirector of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi.



Foreword


Introduction


Chronology of the Black Panther Party


Civil Wrongs and the Rise of Black Power


The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense


Speaking of Violence


Publicizing the Party


Growth and Transformation


Unjustifiable Homicides


Southern Discomfort


To the East ... and Back


The Rift


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Ten Point Program: What We Want, What We Believe


Rules of the Black Panther Party


Partial Listing of BPP Chapters and Affiliates


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Bibliography


Index