Black Panthers for beginners / Herb Boyd ; illustrations by Lance Tooks.

A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with bandoliers strapped across their bodies. The young men surrounded two white police officers who had accosted a black man and...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Boyd, Herb, 1938- (Author)
Other Authors: Tooks, Lance (Illustrator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Danbury, CT : For Beginners, [2015]
Series:Writers and Readers documentary comic book.
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Table of Contents:
  • Black Panther Party Ten Point Program
  • Point one: Freedom
  • Point two: Full employment
  • Point three: Capitalists
  • Point four: Decent housing
  • Point five: Education
  • Point six: Military service
  • Point seven: Police brutality
  • Point eight: Freedom from jail
  • Point nine: Jury of peers
  • Point ten: Black colony
  • The Panther pantheon
  • Black Panthers and other political prisoners
  • Appendix: Black Panther Party Program and Platform
  • Black Panther Party milestones.