Creating Revolution as they Advance: A Narrative History of the Black Panther Pa

Creating Revolution as They Advance: A Narrative History of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense examines the historical context that facilitated the demise of the Civil Rights Movement's patience and the ascension of a much bolder and less patient mid-sixties Black Power politic. This work traces the creation of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California by Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale. Intended to be a community service organization, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense soon found itself as the Vanguard of the entire Sixties Protest scene and the number one target of Federal Bureau of Investigations Director J. Edgar Hoover. Creating Revolution as They Advance not only traces the creation, operation, and demise of the Panthers, but also seeks to paint a more vivid picture of the organization that moves the Black Panther Party legacy away from the stiff non-representative caricature that most remember them as today.

Author: James Thomas Jones III
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 03/11/2016
Pages: 428
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.95d
ISBN: 9781530391585
About the Author
Dr. James Thomas Jones III is a graduate of The Ohio State University. He has earned graduate degrees in African-American Studies and History. Dr. Jones has produced the following books: Creating Revolution As They Advance, Manhood Race and Culture (Volumes I & II), O'Bruni, and 'Foolish' Floyd.