Black against empire: The history and politics of the Black Panther Party - Joshua Bloom
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.
Racial matters: the FBI's secret file on black America - Kenneth O'Reilly
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 28 2016 17:13
A meticulously researched study into how the FBI attempted to disrupt and repress the civil rights movement in the US in the 1960s and 70s.
The Detroit riot, 1967
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 28 2016 15:16
A short account of the Detroit anti-police rebellion, one of the biggest uprisings in American history, which ended with more than 40 dead, 7000 arrested and 2000 buildings destroyed.
The forgotten martyrs of Orangeburg - Monica Moorehead
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 26 2015 17:41
A short account of the police massacre of three black students demonstrating against a segregated bowling alley in South Carolina in 1968.
The British Black Panthers photo gallery
Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 10 2014 11:52
A collection of photos by Neil Kenlock of the British Black Panther party from 1968-1972.
The newspapers of the Young Lords Organization
Attached are digital copies of nearly all the newspapers published by the Young Lords Organization in Chicago and Milwaukee between 1969-71. We do not agree with much of the politics of the newspapers, but reproduce them for reference.
Detroit: I do mind dying. A study in urban revolution - Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
Submitted by wojtek on Jun 2 2013 20:53
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying tracks the extraordinary development of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, as they became two of the most vital political organizations of the 1960s and 1970s. Widely heralded as one the most important books on the black liberation movement and labor struggles in U.S. history.
Negroes with guns - Robert F. Williams
Submitted by wojtek on May 22 2013 23:50
First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups.
“Ironies of the saint” Malcolm X, black women, and the price of protection - Farah Griffin
Submitted by wojtek on Apr 16 2013 17:20
Farah Griffin's black feminist critique of Malcolm X and the "promise of protection".
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