Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party
By Curtis J. Austin.
Description
Curtis J. Austin’s Up Against the Wall chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, dominated its policies, and finally destroyed the party as one member after another―Eldridge Cleaver, Fred Hampton, Alex Rackley―left the party, was killed, or was imprisoned. Austin shows how the party’s early emphasis in the 1960s on self-defense, though sorely needed in black communities at the time, left it open to mischaracterization, infiltration, and devastation by local, state, and federal police forces and govern...
ISBN(s)
1557288755, 9781557288752
