The Revolution Has Come : Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland /

The Revolution Has Come : Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland /

In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed to adulthood as members. Challenging the belief that the Panthers were a projection of the leade...

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Main Author: Spencer, Robyn C., 1970- (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Black Panther Party.
1900-1999
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African American social reformers > Interviews.
African American political activists > Interviews.
Black power > United States > History > 20th century.
Black power > California > Oakland > History > 20th century.
History.
Interviews.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Seize the time : the roots of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
  • In defense of self-defense
  • Moving on many fronts : the Black Panther Party's transformation from local organization to mass movement
  • Inside political repression, 1969-1971
  • "Revolution is a process rather than a conclusion" : rebuilding the party, 1971-1974
  • The politics of survival : electoral politics and organizational transformation
  • "I am we" : the demise of the Black Panther Party, 1977-1982.

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