0
*
0
*
1450
2025
book-filter
Edition cover

Nine lives of a Black Panther

  • Wayne Pharr

0

0 ratings

"In the early morning hours of December 8, 1969, hundreds of SWAT officers engaged in a violent battle with a handful of Los Angeles-based members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). Five hours and 5,000 rounds of ammunition later, three SWAT team members and three Black Panthers lay wounded. For the Panthers and the community that supported them, the shootout symbolized a victory, and a key reason for that victory was the actions of a 19-year-old rank-and-file member of the BPP: Wayne Pharr. Nine Lives of a Black Panther tells Pharr's riveting story of life in the Los Angeles branch of the BPP and gives a blow-by-blow account of how it prepared for and survived the massive attack. He illuminates the history of one of the most dedicated, dynamic, vilified, and targeted chapters of the BPP, filling in a missing piece of Black Panther history and, in the process, creating an engaging and hard-to-put-down memoir about a time and place that holds tremendous fascination for readers interested in African American militancy"--

Genres

  • Social life and customs
  • Race relations
  • Criminals
  • Police-community relations
  • Civil rights
  • African American political activists
  • Black Panther Party. Southern California Chapter
  • Black Panther Party
  • Political violence
  • African Americans
  • African American youth
  • Biography
  • History
  • Black panther party
  • African american politicians
  • Los angeles (calif.), biography
  • African americans, civil rights
  • African american youth
  • Los angeles (calif.), social life and customs
  • Criminals, united states
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  • HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Already read

people already read

Currently reading

people are currently reading

Want to read

people want to read

About the author

  • Wayne Pharr

    born 1950

    0

    0 ratings · 1 works

Editions

  • Edition cover

    First edition.

    2014