Revolutionary Suicide (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Newton, Huey P.; Newton, Fredrika; Anderson, Ho Che

• ISBN13: 9780143105329
• ISBN10: 0143105329
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-29
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling illustrated package Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton’s famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America’s Black Panther Party. From Newton’s impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, Revolutionary Suicideis smart, unrepentant, and thought-provoking in its portrayal of inspired radicalism.

Author Biography

Huey P. Newton (1942-û1989) was an activist and inspirational leader of the Black Panther Party.

Fredrika Newton joined the Black Panther Party as a youth member in 1969 and married Huey P. Newton in 1984. She established the Huey P. Newton Foundation, a non-profit educational organization, in 1993.

Ho Che Anderson was born in London in 1969 and named after the Vietnamese and Cuban revolutionaries Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. He is primarily known for his comic books King, I Want to Be Your Dog, Wise Son, and Scream Queen.

Table of Contents

Revolutionary Suicide Introduction by Fredrika Newton

Revolutionary Suicide

A Manifesto
Revolutionary Suicide: The Way of Liberation

Part One

1. Starting Out
2. Losing
3. Growing
4. Changing
5. Choosing
6. High School

Part Two

7. Reading
8. Moving On
9. College and the Afro-American Association
10. Learning
11. The Brothers on the Block
12. Scoring
13. Loving

Part Three

14. Freedom
15. Bobby Seale
16. The Founding of the Black Panther Party
17. Patrolling
18. Eldridge Cleaver
19. Denzil Dowell
20. Sacramento and the "Panther Bill"
21. Growing Pains

Part Four

22. Raising Consciousness
23. Crisis: October 28, 1967
24. Aftermath
25. Strategy

Part Five

26. Trial
27. The Penal Colony

Part Six

28. Release
29. Rebuilding
30. Fallen Comrade
31. Surviving
32. China
33. The Defection of Eldridge and Reactionary Suicide

Epilogue: I Am We