To Die For The People 9780394718347, 0394718348
A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America. In these selec
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English Pages [273] Year 1972
Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
1: The Party
The Ten-Point Program
Executive Mandate No. 1: May 2, 1967
Executive Mandate No. 2: June 29, 1967
Executive Mandate No. 3: March 1, 1968
The Correct Handling of a Revolution: July 20,1967
Speech Delivered at Boston College: November 18, 1970
Resolutions and Declarations: December 5, 1970
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
Statement: May 1, 1971
On the Relevance of the Church: May 19, 1971
II: The People
Black America
Fear and Doubt
From "In Defense of Self-Defense" I: June 20, 1967
From "In Defense of Self-Defense" II: July 3, 1967
To the Black Movement: May 15, 1968
To the Republic of New Africa: September 13, 1969
Black Capitalism Re-analyzed I: June 5, 1971
Black Capitalism Re-analyzed II: August 9, 1971
He Won't Bleed Me: A Revolutionary Analysis of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song June 19, 1971
White America
On the Peace Movement: August 15, 1969
The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements: August 15, 1970
To the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention: September 5, 1970
Reply to William Patterson: September 19, 1970
The Third World
To the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam: August 29, 1970
Letter from Nguyen Thi Dinh: October 31, 1970
Reply to Roy Wilkins re: Vietnam: September 26, 1970
On the Middle East: September 5, 1970
Repression Breeds Resistance: January 16, 1970
Attica Statement: October 16, 1971
Uniting Against the Common Enemy: October 23, 1971
III: The Bound And The Dead
Prisons: July 12, 1969
Eulogy for Jonathan Jackson and William Christmas: August 15, 1970
Lonnie McLucas and the New Haven 9: August 29, 1970
On the Capture of Angela Davis: October 17, 1970
Eulogy for Samuel Napier: May 1, 1971
On the Dismissal of the Case Against Bobby and Ericka: May 29, 1971
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