Download Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party AudioBook Free
Curtis J. Austin chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Get together in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its plans, and finally damaged the party as you member after another - Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley - left the party, was wiped out, or was imprisoned. Austin shows the way the party's early on emphasis in the 1960s on self-defense, though sorely needed in dark communities at the time, left it available to mischaracterization, infiltration, and devastation by local, talk about, and federal authorities forces and administration businesses. Austin carefully features the internal anxiety between advocates of a more radical position than the Panthers required, who insisted on military confrontation with the state of hawaii, and the ones such as Newton and David Hilliard, who assumed in community organizing and alliance building as first priorities. Austin interviewed a number of party participants who possessed heretofore remained silent. With the help of these testimonies, Austin is able to place the violent history of the party in perspective and show that the "survival" programs, such as the Free Breakfast time for Children program and Free Health Clinics, helped the dark communities they offered to identify their own bases of ability and ability to save lots of themselves. A CHOICE Outstanding Academics Book.
