To Die for the People
To Die for the People
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Overview
A fascinating, first-person account of a historic era in the struggle for black empowerment in America.
Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in the history of America's social movements. Was he a gifted leader of his people or a dangerous outlaw? Were the Black Panthers heroes or terrorists?
Whether Newton and the Panthers are remembered in a positive or a negative light, no one questions Newton's status as one of America's most important revolutionaries. To Die for the People is a recently issued classic collection of his writings and speeches, tracing the development of Newton's personal and political thinking, as well as the radical changes that took place in the formative years of the Black Panther Party.
With a rare and persuasive honesty, To Die for the People records the Party's internal struggles, rivalries and contradictions, and the result is a fascinating look back at a young revolutionary group determined to find ways to deal with the injustice it saw in American society. And, as a new foreword by Elaine Brown makes eminently clear, Newton's prescience and foresight make these documents strikingly pertinent today.
Huey Newton was the founder, leader and chief theoretician of the Black Panther Party, and one of America’s most dynamic and important revolutionary philosophers.
"Huey P. Newton's To Die for the People represents one of the most important analyses of the politics of race, black radicalism, and democracy written during the civil rights-Black Power era. It remains a crucial and indispensible text in our contemporary efforts to understand the continuous legacy of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s."
—Peniel Joseph, author of Waiting Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
"Huey P. Newton's name, and more importantly, his history of resistance and struggle, is little more than a mystery for many younger people. The name of a third-rate rapper is more familiar to the average Black youth, and that's hardly surprising, for the public school system is invested in ignorance, and Huey P. Newton was a rebel — and more, a Black Revolutionary . . . who gave his best to the Black Freedom movement; who inspired millions of others to stand."
—Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and author of Jailhouse Lawyers
"Newton's ability to see theoretically, beyond most individuals of his time, is part of his genius. The opportunity to recognize that genius and see its applicability to our own times is what is most significant about this new edition."
—Robert Stanley Oden, former Panther, Professor of Government, California State University, Sacramento
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780872868168 |
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Publisher: | City Lights Books |
Publication date: | 09/02/2020 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Sales rank: | 945,442 |
File size: | 5 MB |
About the Author
Huey Newton was co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party, and its chief theoretician. In 1967 Newton was arrested and charged with killing an Oakland police officer during a dispute, leading to a much-publicized "Free Huey" campaign. In 1980, Newton earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of California. He died in 1989.
Toni Morrison is a Nobel-prize winning American author, editor and professor. Among the best known of her novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.
Elaine Brown became, in 1974, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party. Today, as an activist, writer and popular lecturer, she promotes the vision of an inclusive and egalitarian society, focusing on resolving problems of race, gender oppression and class disparity in the United States.
Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
Introduction xxv
I The Party 1
The Ten-Point Program 3
Executive Mandate No. 1: May 2, 1967 7
Executive Mandate No. 2: June 29, 1967 9
The Correct Handling of a Revolution: July 20, 1967 14
Speech Delivered at Boston College: November 18, 1970 20
Resolutions and Declarations: December 5, 1970 39
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 44
Statement: May 1, 1971 54
On the Relevance of the Church: May 19, 1971 60
II The People 75
Black America
Fear and Doubt: May 15, 1967 77
From "In Defense of Self-Defense" I: June 20, 1967 80
From "In Defense of Self-Defense" II: July 3, 1967 85
To the Black Movement: May 15, 1968 90
To the Republic of New Africa: September 13, 1969 94
Black Capitalism Re-analyzed I: June 5, 1971 99
Black Capitalism Re-analyzed II: August 9, 1971 109
He Won't Bleed Me: A Revolutionary Analysis of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: June 19, 1971 112
White America
On the Peace Movement: August 15, 1969 149
The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements: August 15, 1970 153
To the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention: September5, 1970 157
Reply to William Patterson: September 19, 1970 164
The Third World
To the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam: August 29, 1970 180
Letter from Nguyen Thi Dinh: October 31, 1970 184
Reply to Roy Wilkins re: Vietnam: September 26, 1970 188
On the Middle East: September 5, 1970 194
Repression Breeds Resistance: January 16, 1970200
Attica Statement: October 16, 1971 208
Uniting Against the Common Enemy: October 23, 1971 210
III The Bound and the Dead 219
Prisons: July 12, 1969 221
Eulogy for Jonathan Jackson and William Christmas: August 15, 1970 225
Lonnie McLucas and the New Haven 9: August 29, 1970 227
On the Capture of Angela Davis: October 17, 1970 232
Eulogy for Samuel Napier: May 1, 1971 234
On the Dismissal of the Case Against Bobby and Ericka: May 29, 1971 235