The shadow of the panther : Huey Newton and the price of Black power in America /

The shadow of the panther : Huey Newton and the price of Black power in America / Hugh Pearson.

In the early morning of August 22, 1989, on the corner of Ninth and Center Streets in Oakland, Huey Newton faced Tyrone Robinson and two other drug dealers, asking them for crack. Robinson refused, took a 9-mm automatic from one of his companions and pointed it at Newton's head. Huey stood stil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pearson, Hugh.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1994]
Subjects:
Newton, Huey P.
Black Panther Party > History.
Black power > United States > History.
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Murder in the early morning
  • Genesis
  • Feeling the southern earthquake from a distance
  • A large cat leaps out of Alabama
  • Managing the cat out of the bag
  • The cat slips its leash
  • The cat prowls
  • Life in the party
  • Reactions to the cat's violence
  • When the biggest cat leaps out of prison
  • Fellow travellers in the lair
  • Keepers of the lair
  • Cat in a corner
  • Death and its aftermath.

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