Analysis: The Black Panther Party For Self Defense

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Aretha, David. "Black Power (Civil Rights Movement)" Morgan Reynolds Pub. 2011. Print
The information is about the Civil Rights Movement and the role that the Black Panthers Party had in starting the movement. Benson, Larry. "Hilliard, David, ed.: The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs." International Social Science Review 84.3-4 (2009): 184+. World History in Context. Web. 17 Mar. 2016.0
The summary of this article is it talks about the various programs within the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The is a wide range of the programs that the party had. Health clinics, food services, clothing, and housing are just a few examples. Their programs were geared towards the people. The source has no errors or objectivity
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She ends up discovering all the types of free services, or programs, that the party had to offer for the people and much more. She also provides readers with crucial background information in order to understand certain things that they party did. The source appears to be very credible. It contains no errors or mistakes. The date it was published is in 2014, so it is updated and very relevant to modern day. The source could be used for discovering information about the programs that the party offered and what it did to aid the people living in poverty. The source doesn 't exclude any of the various program that was offered by the party, but instead mentions every single one of them. Also, it portrays the programs very accurately. The writer is a professor at Boston University. She has at least a Ph.D. The intended audience might be young adults, or just adults. Also, anyone who is an academic scholar and interested in the Black Panther Party, or a professor. The source does seem to be bias, in favor of the party. My reaction is that everything about the source is credible. It is well written and does an excellent job at presenting facts about the party, excluding the very few instances that it contains certain biases. It is very lengthy, which means that it contains plenty of useful information. The writer even cites all the sources that she used in order to write the article, which is

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