Kathleen Cleaver, currently Professor of Public Policy at Emory University, worked full time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and afterwards became the Communications Secretary of the Black Panther Party. Returning to the United States after sharing years of exile with her former husband Eldridge Cleaver, she subsequently earned both a B.A. and J.D. from Yale University. George Katsiaficas is a long-time activist as well as Editor of the journal New Political Science and author of The Imagination of the New Left: A GlobalAnalysis of 1968. His book, The Subversion of Politics:European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life, won the APSA's 1998 Michael Harrington book award. He teaches at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
Introduction by George Katsiaficas I. Revisiting the Liberation Struggle
Repressions Breeds Resistance: The Black Liberation Army and the Legacy of
the Black Panther Party, Akinyele Umoja Global Solidarity: The Black Panter
Party in the International Arean, Michael L. Clemons and Charles E. Jones A
Life in the Party: A Historical an dRetrospective Examination of the
Projections and Legacies of the Black Panther Party (excerpts), Mumia
Abu-Jamal Mobilizing For Mumia Abu-Jamal In Paris, Kathleen Neal Cleaver
II. Understanding the Fight for Freedom Every Nation Struggling to be Free
has a Right to Struggle, a Duty to Struggle, geronimo ji Jaga To Disrupt,
Discredit, and Destroy: The FBI'S Secret War Against the Black Panther
Party, Ward Churchill The Split in the Party, Don Cox Women, Power, and
Revolution, Kathleen Neal Cleaver Black Fighting Formations: Their
Strengths, Weaknesses and Potentialities, Russell Shoats III. Capturing the
Imagination of the Movement Organization and Movement: The Case of the
Black Panther Party and the Revolutionary People's Constitutional
Convention of 1970, George Katsiaficas The Influences of the Black Panter
Party (USA) on the Vanguard Party of the Bahamas, 1972-1987. John T.
McCartney Cuba, The Black Panther Party and the US Black Movement in the
1960s: Issues of Security, Ruth Reitan Revolutionary Art is a Tool for
Liberation: Emory Douglas and Protest Aesthetics at the Black Panther,
Erika Doss White Radicals, Black Panthers and a Sense of Fulfillment, Stew
Albert IV. Continuing the Resistance Shadow of a Clue, Errol Anthony
Henderson Tracking Down the Empirical Legacy of the Black Panther Party (or
Notes on the Perils of Pursuing the Panthers), Claudia Dahlerus and
Christian Davenport Remembering King's Assassination, Kathleen Neal Cleaver
Louisiana Panthers Endure 27 Years of Solitary Confinement for a Murder
They Did Not Commit, Scott Fleming Afterword: Rediscovering the Black
Panther Party, Victor Wallis Documents: The Ten Point Platform and Program
of the Black Panther Party (1966) Workshop Reports from the Revolutionary
Peoples Constitutional Convention (1970) NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
