The Huey P. Newton Reader

by NEWTON, HUEY PHILLIARD, DAVID

• ISBN13: 9781583224663
• ISBN10: 1583224661
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-07
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

The First Comprehensive Collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts with never-before-published writings from the Black Panther Party archives. Topics include: the formation of the Black Panthers; African Americans and armed self-defense; prison martyr George Jackson; Eldridge Cleaver's controversial expulsion from the Party; FBI infiltration of civil rights groups;the Vietnam War; and the burgeoning feminist movement. Among the new writings that are being published here for the first time from the Black Panther Party archives and Newton'n private collection, are articles on: President Nixon; environmentalism; Pan-Africanism; James Baldwin; and affirmative action.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
The First Steps
Scoring	p. 25
Freedom	p. 38
Bobby Seale	p. 44
The Founding of the Black Panther Party	p. 49
Patrolling	p. 53
Sacramento and the "Panther Bill"	p. 67
Crisis: October 28, 1967	p. 73
Trial	p. 79
The Greatest Threat
Fear and Doubt: May 15, 1967	p. 131
From "In Defense of Self-Defense" I: June 20, 1967	p. 134
From "In Defense of Self-Defense" II: July 3, 1967	p. 138
The Correct Handling of a Revolution: July 20, 1967	p. 142
A Functional Definition of Politics, January 17, 1969	p. 147
On the Peace Movement: August 15, 1969	p. 150
Prison, Where Is Thy Victory?: January 3, 1970	p. 154
The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements: August 15, 1970	p. 157
Speech Delivered at Boston College: November 18, 1970	p. 160
The Second Wave
Intercommunalism: February 1971	p. 181
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	p. 200
Statement: May 1, 1971	p. 209
On the Relevance of the Church: May 19, 1971	p. 214
Black Capitalism Re-analyzed I: June 5, 1971	p. 227
Uniting Against a Common Enemy: October 23, 1971	p. 234
Fallen Comrade: Eulogy for George Jackson, 1971	p. 241
On Pan-Africanism or Communism: December 1, 1972	p. 248
The Technology Question: 1972	p. 256
A Spokesman for the People: In Conversation with William F. Buckley, February 11, 1973	p. 267
Eldridge Cleaver: He Is No James Baldwin, 1973	p. 285
The Last Empire
Who Makes U.S. Foreign Policy?: 1974	p. 295
Dialectics of Nature: 1974	p. 304
Eve, the Mother of All Living: 1974	p. 313
The Mind Is Flesh: 1974	p. 317
Affirmative Action in Theory and Practice: Letters on the Bakke Case, September 22, 1977	p. 331
Response of the Government to the Black Panther Party: 1980	p. 337
Publication History	p. 360
Selected Bibliography	p. 361
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