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From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Jakobi Williams
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Paperback. From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago Series: The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president of the NAACP Youth Council and continued to pursue a civil rights agenda when he became chairman of the revolutionary Chicago-based Black Panther Party. Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, for the first ... Read more
In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president of the NAACP Youth Council and continued to pursue a civil rights agenda when he became chairman of the revolutionary Chicago-based Black Panther Party. Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, for the first ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469622101
SKU
V9781469622101
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About Jakobi Williams
Jakobi Williams is assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky, USA.
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