The Huey P. Newton Reader

by Newton, Huey P; Hilliard, David; Weise, Donald; Newton, Fredrika

• ISBN13: 9781583224670
• ISBN10: 158322467X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-07
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts-ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers African Americans and armed self-defense Eldridge Cleaver's controversial expulsion from the Party FBI infiltration of civil rights groups the Vietnam War and the burgeoning feminist movement-with never-before-published writings from the Black Panther Party archives and Newton's private collection.

Author Biography

Beginning with his founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966, HUEY P. NEWTON (1941–89) set the political stage for events that would quickly place him and the Panthers at the forefront of the African American liberation movement for the next twenty years.
DAVID HILLIARD is a founding member and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party. He is the author of This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party and currently serves as executive director of the Dr.Huey P. Newton Foundation in Oakland, California.
DONALD WIESE is the editor of Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual African-American Fiction. He lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Fredrika Newton
Introduction	9	(16)
David Hilliard
Part I: The First Steps
Scoring	25	(13)
Freedom	38	(6)
Bobby Seale	44	(5)
The Founding of the Black Panther Party	49	(4)
Patrolling	53	(14)
Sacramento and the ``Panther Bill''	67	(6)
Crisis: October 18, 1961	73	(6)
Trial	79	(52)
Part II: The Greatest Threat
Fear and Doubt: May 15,1961	131	(3)
From ``In Defense of Self-Defense'' I: June 10,1967	134	(4)
From ``In Defense of Self-Defense'' II: July 3,1967	138	(4)
The Correct Handling of a Revolution: July 20,1967	142	(5)
A Functional Definition of Politics, January 17,1969	147	(3)
On the Peace Movement: August 15, 1969	150	(4)
Prison, Where Is Thy Victory?: January 3, 1970	154	(3)
The Women's Liberation and Gay liberation Movements: August 15, 1970	157	(3)
Speech Delivered at Boston College: November 18, 1970	160	(21)
Part III: The Second Wave
Intercommunalism: February 1971	181	(19)
On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver from the Black Panther Party and the defection of the Black Panther Party from the Black Community: April 17, 1971	200	(9)
Statement: May 1,1971	209	(5)
On the Relevance of the Church: May 19,1971	214	(13)
Black Capitalist Re-Analyzed I: June 5,1971	227	(7)
Uniting Against a Common Enemy: October 13,1971	234	(7)
Fallen Comrade: Enemy for George Jackson, 1971	241	(7)
On Pan-Africanism or Communism: December 1, 1971	248	(8)
The Technology Questions: 1972	256	(11)
A Spokesman for the People: In Conversation with William F. Buckley the February 11, 1973	267	(18)
Eldridge Clearer: He Is No James Baldwin, 1973	285	(10)
Part IV: The Last Empire
Who Makes U.S. Foreign Policy?: 1974	295	(9)
Dialectics of Nature: 1974	304	(9)
Eve, the Mother of All living: 1974	313	(4)
The Mind Is Flesh: 1974	317	(14)
Affirmative Action in Theory and Practice: Letters on the Bakke Case, September 22, 1977	331	(6)
Response of the Government to the Black Panther Party: 1980	337	(23)
Publication History	360	(1)
Selected Bibliography	361