The Black Panther Movement

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The Black Panther Movement is an important movement because their ideas spread a Marxist's idea of equality for all people no matter of race and gender. They took the idea of African American nonviolence tactical and deceased to an if you get to push you should push back. When people hear the word Black Panther they think of the dislike of authorizing and using violent. However, the Black Panther was more than that it was the FBI who put this idea in people's head. The Black Panther believed that everyone should equal and use the Marxist idea to spread their thoughts.
Bloom, Joshua, Waldo E Martin 2012. Against Black Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. Berkeley: University of California Press.
The Author Joshua Bloom is a Professor of Sociology at UCLA and Co- Author Martin, Waldo
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The perspective he took with this book is the Black Panther self- defense movement. He also talks about the FBI involvement in the Black Panther. This author is giving a Marxist view of how the Black Panther movement arises in the communities of equalities. I will use this point of view to show how the push of pull of American.
Alkebulan, Paul 2007. Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Paul Alkebulan is a former member of the Black Panther Party and worked on the first free breakfast program for school children in Oakland in 1969. He is Assistant Professor of History at Virginia State University. Because the author was a Black Panther and now have a history degree, he talks about the Black Panther Marxist view and how they would use that opinion to spread their words. It is an excellent source to use because it from a Black Panther and it could help me understand how they use Marxist to spread their ideas.
Jeffries, J2002. Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist. Jackson: University Press of

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