Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party Book

Contents

Introduction From Oakland to Omaha: Historicizing the Panthers YOHURU WILLIAMS....................1
1 Bringing the Black Panther Party Back In A Survey JAMA LAZEROW AND YOHURU WILLIAMS....................33
2 The Black Panthers at the Water's Edge Oakland, Boston, and the New Bedford "Riots" of 1970 JAMA LAZEROW....................85
3 "The Power Belongs to Us and We Belong to the Revolutionary Age" The Alabama Black Liberation Front and the Long Reach of the Black Panther Party ROBERT W. WIDELL JR....................136
4 Marching Blind The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party in Detroit AHMAD A. RAHMAN....................181
5 "Give Them a Cause to Die For" The Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1969-77 YOHURU WILLIAMS....................232
Epilogue The Black Panther Party in the Disunited States of America: Constitutionalism, Watergate, and the Closing of the Americanists' Minds DEVIN FERGUS....................265
Contributors....................295
Index....................297