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"Last Man Standing is a chronicle of the twenty-seven-year struggle to break a conspiratorial abuse of power and free one of America's most famous political prisoners.".
"In 1968, twenty-year-old Elmer Gerard "Geronimo" Pratt returned from Vietnam with a chest full of medals and a Purple Heart into the most heated racial climate in American history. Taking advantage of the G.I. Bill, Pratt enrolled at UCLA, where the Black Panther Party was busy recruiting. Propelled by a diverse group of African Americans, the Panther agenda was a volatile mix of black rage, black pride, altruism, idealism, and violence. Under the charismatic leadership of Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P.
Newton, Bobby Seale, and Bunchy Carter, Pratt rose to the rank of Deputy Minister of Defense and became leader of the Los Angeles Chapter. The Panthers did not go unnoticed by J. Edgar Hoover. In the era of enemies' lists, his FBI drew up its own list of Panthers to be "neutralized" and began a systematic counterintelligence program to undermine black solidarity. Geronimo Pratt headed Hoover's list.
When an FBI informer within the Panther party agreed to testify that Pratt murdered a young woman at a Santa Monica tennis court, his days as a free citizen came to an end."--BOOK JACKET.
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Black Panther Party, Trials, litigation, African American political activists, False imprisonment, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States, Case studies, Race relations, Political activists, BiographyPeople
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Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt
November 6, 2001, Anchor
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Last man standing: the tragedy and triumph of Geronimo Pratt
2000, Doubleday
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"The patriarch, Enoch "Jack" Pratt Sr., was a stumpy little drayman who sifted the Morgan City dump and hauled his collectibles ninety-nine miles to New Orleans in rattly old trucks that bore the inscription "Jack Pratt & Sons.""
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"The patriarch, Enoch "Jack" Pratt Sr., was a stumpy little drayman who sifted the Morgan City dump and hauled his collectibles ninety-nine miles to New Orleans in rattly old trucks that bore the inscription "Jack Pratt & Sons.""
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