For The People: The Historiography of the Black Panther Party and Black Community Politics and Activism
Updated Links to Primary Documents:
Stokely Carmichael, “Black Power”, October 29, 1966: https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/carmichael-black-power-speech-text/
Charles Bursey, Black Panther Party member, serves food for the Free Breakfast for Schoolchildren Program, Oakland, California, ca. 1970: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Breakfast-of-Unsung-Heroes%3A-Black-Women's-Forgotten-Wade/b7bb2e587639bdd95e6790ee488fc80e5457be9e
Fred Hampton, left, chairman of the Black Panthers, speaks during a news conference with the Young Lords on Oct. 10, 1969: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-black-panthers-raid-fred-hampton-50-years-20191203-kbzgztrvtfh7tp7x4ggtvhncpm-story.html
I Joined the Panthers by Joan Bird from The Black Panther newsletter, June 27, 1970: https://washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1970-06-27-black-panther-vol-4-no-30.pdf
Black Panther Sisters talk about Women’s Liberation reprinted from The Movement, September 1969: https://revolution.berkeley.edu/assets/deleted_womens-lib-1.pdf
Pocket Lawyer of Legal First Aid From The Black Panther, March 23, 1969: http://freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC513_scans/BPP_Paper/513.BPP.ICN.V1.N3.June.3.1967.pdf
The Black Child’s Pledge: https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1254
Liberation Schools, From The Black Panther, July 5, 1969: https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll8/id/83924/
People’s Medical Care Center By Lincoln Webster Sheffield from The Black Panther, October 26, 1968: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5948733cf5e23161d7d8bf60/t/5bc63650104c7bc3ec11b0f7/1539716688798/BPPhandout.pdf
Free clothing being offered at an event sponsored by the Black Panther Party in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1969: https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/black-panthers-ten-point-program/
Table of Contents
I. Synthesis Essay……………………………….3
II. Primary Documents and Headnotes……….26
III. Textbook Critique…………………………….36
IV. New Textbook Entry………………………….41
V. Bibliography…………………………………...49