A manifesto -- Revolutionary suicide: the way of liberation -- Starting out -- Losing -- Growing -- Changing -- Choosing -- High School -- Reading -- Moving on -- College and the Afro-American Association -- Learning -- The brothers on the block -- Scoring -- Loving -- Freedom -- Bobby Seale -- The founding of the Black Panther Party -- Patrolling -- Eldridge Cleaver -- Denzil Dowell -- Sacramento and the "Panther Bill" -- Growing pains -- Raising consciousness -- Crisis: October 28, 1967 -- Aftermath -- Strategy -- Trial -- The penal colony -- Release -- Rebuilding -- Fallen comrade -- Surviving -- China -- The defection of Eldridge and reactionary suicide -- Epilogue: I am we.
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Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.
Summary
Presents the memoir of founding Black Panther member Huey P. Newton in which he describes the inner circle of the revolutionary organization and covers his childhood in Oakland, Calif., struggles within the system, and confinement in the Alameda County Jail.