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Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

By: Jetta Grace Martin,Joshua Bloom,Waldo E. Martin Jr.

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Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

By: Jetta Grace Martin,Joshua Bloom,Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Booklist Editors’ Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World Knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic. That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution. In the beginning, it was a story like any other. It could have been yours and it could have been mine. But once it got going, it became more than any one person could have imagined. This is the story of Huey and Bobby. Eldridge and Kathleen. Elaine and Fred and Ericka. This is the story of the committed party members. Their supporters and allies. The Free Breakfast Program and the Ten Point Program. It’s about Black nationalism, Black radicalism, about Black people in America. From the authors of the acclaimed book, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, and introducing new talent Jetta Grace Martin, comes the story of the Panthers for younger readers—meticulously researched, thrillingly told, and filled with incredible photographs throughout. P R A I S E ★ “A passionate, honest, and intimate look into an important time in civil rights history.” —Booklist (starred) ★ “Impeccable writing and stellar design make this title highly recommended.” —School Library Journal (starred) “Detailed, thoroughly researched...A valuable addition to the history of African American resistance.” —Kirkus

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Black against Empire

The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By: Joshua Bloom,Waldo E. Martin Jr.

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Black against Empire

The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By: Joshua Bloom,Waldo E. Martin Jr.

This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities. In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the United States, the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. In the face of intense repression, the Party flourished, becoming the center of a revolutionary movement with offices in sixty-eight U.S. cities and powerful allies around the world. Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions, such as why so many young black people across the country risked their lives for the revolution, why the Party grew most rapidly during the height of repression, and why allies abandoned the Party at its peak of influence. Bold, engrossing, and richly detailed, this book cuts through the mythology and obfuscation, revealing the political dynamics that drove the explosive growth of this revolutionary movement and its disastrous unraveling. Informed by twelve years of meticulous archival research, as well as familiarity with most of the former Party leadership and many rank-and-file members, this book is the definitive history of one of the greatest challenges ever posed to American state power.

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Univ of California Press

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0520966457

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9780520966451

The Mind of Frederick Douglass

By: Waldo E. Martin Jr.

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The Mind of Frederick Douglass

By: Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired many biographies over the years. This, however, is the first full-scale study of the origins, contours, development, and significance of Douglass's thought. Brilliant and to a large degree self-taught, Douglass personified intellectual activism; he possessed a sincere concern for the uses and consequences of ideas. Both his people's struggle for liberation and his individual experiences, which he envisioned as symbolizing that struggle, provided the basis and structure for his intellectual maturation. As a representative American, he internalized and, thus, reflected major currents in the contemporary American mind. As a representative Afro-American, he revealed in his thinking the deep-seated influence of race on Euro-American, Afro-American, or, broadly conceived, American consciousness. He sought to resolve in his thinking the dynamic tension between his identities as a black and as an American. Martin assesses not only how Douglass dealt with this enduring conflict, but also the extent of his success. An inveterate belief in a universal and egalitarian humanism unified Douglass's thought. This grand organizing principle reflected his intellectual roots in the three major traditions of mid-nineteenth-century American thought: Protestant Christianity, the Enlightenment, and romanticism. Together, these influences buttressed his characteristic optimism. Although nineteenth-century Afro-American intellectual history derived its central premises and outlook from concurrent American intellectual history, it offered a searching critique of the latter and its ramifications. How to square America's rhetoric of freedom, equality, and justice with the reality of slavery and racial prejudice was the difficulty that confronted such Afro-American thinkers as Douglass.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807864285

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9780807864289

Brown v. Board of Education

A Brief History with Documents

By: Waldo Martin

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Brown v. Board of Education

A Brief History with Documents

By: Waldo Martin

This new edition of Brown v. Board of Education addresses the origins, development, meanings, and consequences of the 1954 Supreme Court decision to end Jim Crow segregation. Using legal documents to frame the debates surrounding the case, Waldo Martin presents Brown v. Board of Education as an event, a symbol, and a key marker in the black liberation struggle. This new edition strikes a balance between political and social history, not only highlighting the constitutional aspects of the decision but also the social context and impact of the decision for African Americans. With an updated introductory essay and six new documents, several of them by African American authors, the second edition of the text brings this case into the larger context of African American history and civil rights and explores its long-term effects. New questions for consideration, as well as an updated chronology and bibliography, supplement the sources. Available in print and e-book formats.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319104657

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Freedom on My Mind, Volume 2

A History of African Americans, With Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

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Freedom on My Mind, Volume 2

A History of African Americans, With Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

A living history of the African American experience.

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1319265812

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9781319265816

Freedom on My Mind, Volume I

A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

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Freedom on My Mind, Volume I

A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

Award-winning scholars and veteran teachers Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, and Waldo E. Martin Jr. have collaborated to create a fresh, innovative new African American history textbook that weaves together narrative and a wealth of carefully selected primary sources. The narrative focuses on the diversity of black experience, on culture, and on the impact of African Americans on the nation as a whole. Every chapter contains two themed sets of written documents and a visual source essay, guiding students through the process of analyzing sources and offering the convenience and value of a "two-in-one" textbook and reader.

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1457637618

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No Coward Soldiers

Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America

By: Waldo E. Martin

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No Coward Soldiers

Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America

By: Waldo E. Martin

In this exploration of the 20th-century civil rights and black power eras, Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle. In freedom songs, in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold's exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political.

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Harvard University Press

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0674040686

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9780674040687

Brown v. Board of Education

A Brief History with Documents

By: Waldo Martin

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A Brief History with Documents

By: Waldo Martin

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Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

By: Jetta Grace Martin,Joshua Bloom,Waldo E. Martin Jr.

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Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

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The Mind of Frederick Douglass

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Freedom on My Mind, Volume 2

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Freedom on My Mind, Volume I

Freedom on My Mind, Volume I

No Coward Soldiers

No Coward Soldiers

Brown v. Board of Education

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Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

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