From the bullet to the ballot : the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and racial coalition politics in Chicago / by Jakobi Williams.
Williams, Jakobi.
2013
F548.9.N4 W55 2013
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Title From the bullet to the ballot : the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and racial coalition politics in Chicago / by Jakobi Williams.
Author Williams, Jakobi.
ISBN 9780807838167 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0807838160 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781469622101 (pbk; alk. paper)
1469622106 (pbk; alk. paper)
Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2013.
Language English
Description xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers 40021980273
Call Number F548.9.N4 W55 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.1196/073077311
Summary In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president of the NAACP Youth Council and continued to pursue a civil rights agenda when he became chairman of the revolutionary Chicago-based Black Panther Party. Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, for the first time, sealed secret police files in Chicago and interviews conducted with often reticent former members of the ILBPP, Williams explores how Hampton helped develop racial coalitions between the ILBPP and other local activists and organizations. Williams also recounts the history of the original Rainbow Coalition, created in response to Richard J. Daley's Democratic machine, to show how the Panthers worked to create an antiracist, anticlass coalition to fight urban renewal, political corruption, and police brutality. -- Book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index.
Series John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Linked Resources Book review (H-Net)
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Introduction : the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party speaks for itself
The political and social climate of Black Chicago, 1900-1970
The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party
Chicago and Oakland : a comparative analysis of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and national headquarters
The original rainbow coalition
Law enforcement repression and the assassination of chairman Fred Hampton
The legacy of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party.

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