Living for the city [electronic resource] : migration, education, and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / Donna Jean Murch.
Murch, Donna Jean.
2010
F869.O2 M87 2010eb
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Title Living for the city [electronic resource] : migration, education, and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / Donna Jean Murch.
Author Murch, Donna Jean.
ISBN 9780807895856 (electronic bk.)
9780807871133 (pbk.)
9780807833766
Imprint Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 312 p.) : ill., maps
Call Number F869.O2 M87 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 322.4/20979466
Summary "In this... history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how Oakland, a relatively small city with a recent history of African American settlement, produced such compelling and influential forms of Black Power politics. During an era of expansion and political struggle in California's system of public higher education, black southern migrants formed the BPP. In the early 1960s, attending Merritt College and other public universities radicalized Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and many of the young people who joined the Panthers' rank and file. In the face of social crisis and police violence, the most disfranchised sectors of the East Bay's African American Community--young, poor, and migrant--challenged the legitimacy of state authorities and of an older generation of black leadership. In excavating this hidden history, Living for the City broadens the scholarship of the Black Power movement by documenting the contributions of black students and youth who created new forms of organization, grassroots mobilization, and political literacy"--Publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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Introduction
City of migrants, 1940-1960
Canaan bound
Fortress California
The campus and the street, 1961-1966
We care enough to tell it
A campus where Black power won
Black power and urban movement, 1966-1982
Men with guns
Survival pending revolution
A chicken in every bag.

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