Revolution In Our Time The Black Panther Partys Promise To The People Kekla Magoon by Kekla Magoon 9781536223422, 1536223425 instant download after payment.

With passion & precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers—as militant revolutionaries & as human rights advocates working to defend & protect their community.

In this comprehensive, inspiring, & all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect & support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members—mostly women—and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens.

Revolution in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Kekla Magoon's eye-opening work invites a new generation of readers grappling with injustices in the United States to learn from the Panthers' history & courage, inspiring them to take their own place in the ongoing fight for justice.

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Kekla Magoon is the author of many novels & nonfiction books for young readers, including The Season of Styx Malone, How It Went Down, The Rock & the River, & the Robyn Hoodlum Adventure series. She has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award for New Talent, four Coretta Scott King Honor Awards, the Walter Award Honor, an NAACP Image Award, & inclusion on the National Book Award Longlist.