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<p>This is the third volume in Judson L. Jeffries’s long-range effort to paint a more complete portrait of the most widely known organization to emerge from the 1960s Black Power Movement. Like its predecessors (<i>Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party</i> [2007] and <i>On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities across America</i> [2010]), this volume looks at Black Panther Party (BPP) activity in sites outside Oakland, the most studied BPP locale and the one long associated with oversimplified and underdeveloped narratives about, and distorted images of, the organization.</p><p>The cities covered in this volume are Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. The contributors examine official BPP branches and chapters as well as offices of the National Committee to Combat Fascism that evolved into full-fledged BPP chapters and branches. They have mined BPP archives and interviewed members to convey the daily ups-and-downs related to BPP’s social-justice activities and to reveal the diversity of rank-and-file BPP members’ personal backgrounds and the legal, political, and social skills, or baggag

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Author

Black Panther Party;Black Panther Party.;Jeffries, Judson L

Publisher

The University of Georgia Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820351971

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Political Science