<p>From its founding in 1966 to contemporary attempts to censure its history and revise its significance, the Black Panther party has aroused fear, hope, pride, vilification, and government-sponsored oppression. The trials of Huey Newton, the Chicago Eight, and the Panther 21 made it enormously difficult for many Americans to distinguish the propaganda from the philosophy; the media's indifference to the Panthers' free breakfast programs, neighborhood clinics, and liberation schools only complicated the problem.This is the first and only collection of the most vital, representative writings of the party. Here are Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard, and Fred Hampton; Kathleen Cleaver and other Panther women; the party's court battles and acquittals; its positions on black separatism, the power structure, the police, violence, and education; as well as songs, poems, and political cartoons. This book explains exactly what the Black Panthers stood for and what issues they confronted, almost all of which remain unresolved today.</p>

The Black Panthers Speak

History

Foner, Philip

Americas

Lippincott

<p>Traces the history of labor unions and the labor movement from America's colonial era, through the Industrial Revolution, to the present</p>

The AFL in the Progressive Era, 1910-1915 (History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 5)

Business & Money

Economics

Intl Pub

From the Introduction: "The significant impact of communism in combating racism in the labor movement and in support of Black liberation cannot be ignored by any serious student of United States history and society. This documentary study seeks to substantiate that view. The editors have tried to select from the mass of primary material they gathered those documents, articles, speeches, and news items that indicate most clearly the formation, evolution, and application of Communist policy with respect to the condition and freedom struggle of Black Americans...."

American Communism Blacks Volume 1

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Temple University Press

The second volume in this series continues the story begun in Volume 1: the history of black Americans and their struggle for equality.  The first volume documented the evolution of the Communist Party of the United States and its relationship with black Americans during the first decade of the Partyas existence. Taking up the story in 1930, and again relying mainly on primary sources, Volume 2 examines the final text of the "Resolution on the Negro Question." The resolution states that racism infected the American Communist Party and was reflected in its work, and to combat it, the Party urged vigorous self-criticism together with systematic education on the sources of racism. The resolution further declared that white workers must "show by action, that they are fighting with the Negroes against all racial discrimination and persecution." Without such a constant struggle, the resolution continued, the Black workers would not be drawn to the Party.  Unlike previous groups in the American Left (especially the Socialists). the Communist Party viewed "the Negro question" as a national question, and defined the Partyas role as fighting for "proletarian hegemony" within a broad Black liberation movement that included other political tendencies. This work seeks to substantiate the view that the significant impact of communism in combating racism and supporting Black Liberation cannot be ignored by any serious student of United States history and society. Author note:  Philip S. Foner is Professor Emeritus of History at Lincoln University.  Herbert Shapiro is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.

American Communism Blacks Volume 2

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