The Black Panthers Speak

Philip Sheldon Foner

Perseus Books Group, 2002 - History - 281 pages

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.

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User Review  - Deanna - Goodreads

Read this when it was originally published. Required it for my Master's Urban Soc classes.

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User Review  - Selika - Goodreads

Oral testimony on black power.

About the author

Philip S. Foner, is emeritus professor of history at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. Among his many books are the four-volume History of Black Americans, the nine-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United States, and the two-volume Women and the American Labor Movement.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Black Panthers Speak
• Editor: Philip Sheldon Foner
• Contributor: Clayborne Carson
• Edition: 2, reprint
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group, 2002
• ISBN: 0306812010, 9780306812019
• Length: 281 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / 20th Century