Curtis Austin: 3 books
by Curtis Austin, Charles Jones, Ava Kinsey
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This is the third volume in Judson L. Jeffries’s long-range effort to paint a more complete portrait of the most widely known organization to emerge from the 1960s Black Power Movement. Like its predecessors (Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party [2007] and On the Ground: The Black...
Up Against the Wall
Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
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...
Showdown in Desire
The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Showdown in Desire portrays the Black Panther Party in New Orleans in 1970, a year that included a shootout with the police on Piety Street, the creation of survival programs, and the daylong standoff between the Panthers and the police in the Desire housing development. Through interviews with Malik...