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Shadow Of The Panther: Huey Newton And The Price Of Black Power In America

1995

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Pearson (Pacific News Service) offers a history of the Black Panthers and an account of the rise and fall of Huey Newton. He traces the development of the civil rights movement from the formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping-Car Porters in the 1920s through the leadership of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and demonstrates how Newton's personal conflicts mirrored those of the Black Panther Party.

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