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Black Politics / White Power Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven
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Black Politics / White Power Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven

Black Politics / White Power Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven

by Yohuru Williams

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ISBN

9781881089605

Published

2000

Pages

240

Publisher

Wiley

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The popular media have portrayed the Black Panthers mainly for the rhetoric of violence some members employed and for the associations between the Panthers and a black militancy drawing on racial hostility to whites in general. Overlooked have been the efforts that branches of the organization undertook for practical economic and social progress within African-American neighborhoods, frequently in alliance with whites. Yohuru Williams' study of black politics in New Haven culminating in the arri