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First Published:
May 2008, 240 pages
Paperback:
Jan 2009, 240 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Stacey Brownlie
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This article relates to The Beautiful Struggle
The author's father, Paul Coates, was a member of the
Black Panther Party. As Coates describes in his book, the Party's original
aims concerned self-defense and social justice. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
founded the Party in 1966. Its diverse membership, however, made cohesion
difficult and produced geographically clustered varieties of the socialism,
counter-culturalism and Black Nationalism for which the Party became known. The
Black Panthers frequently clashed with law enforcement: FBI Counter Intelligence
Programs (COINTELPRO), for example, investigated the group's alleged connections
to communism and hate-related violence across the U.S. Many in the Black
community felt that the police and government were unfairly targeting the
Panthers.
Berkeley Library offers an online collection of Black Panther
history and chronology.
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This "beyond the book article" relates to The Beautiful Struggle. It originally ran in June 2008 and has been updated for the
January 2009 paperback edition.
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