Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A DuForcelf book"--T.p. verso.
"Selected bibliography": p. [480]-509.

CONTENTS:

Reconsidering Panther history : the untold story / Charles E. Jones --

Part I. Contextual landscape: "Don't believe the hype" : debunking the Panther mythology / Charles E. Jones and Judson L. Jeffries ; The Black Panthers and the "Undeveloped country" of the Left / Nikhil Pal Singh --

Part II. Reflections from the rank and file: Once I was a Panther / Melvin E. Lewis ; Selections from a Panther diary / Steve D. McCutchen ; "I got a right to the tree of life" : Afrocentric reflections of a former community worker / Miriam Ma'at-Ka-Re Monges ; "Talkin' the talk and walkin' the walk" : an interview with Panther Jimmy Slater / Charles E. Jones --

Part III. Organizational dynamics: "All power to the people" : the political thought of Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party / Floyd W. Hayes, III, and Francis A. Kiene, III ; "Serving the people" : the survival programs of the Black Panther Party / JoNina M. Abron ; Reading the "Voice of the vanguard" : a content analysis of the Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, 1969-1973 / Christian A. Davenport ; Back to Africa : the evolution of the International Section of the Black Panther Party (1969-1972) / Kathleen Neal Cleaver --

Part IV. Gender dynamics: Why I joined the Party : an Africana womanist reflection / Regina Jennings ; "No one ever asks, what a man's role in the revolution is" : gender and the politics of the Black Panther Party, 1966-1971 / Tracye Matthews ; "The most qualified person to handle the job" : Black Panther Party women, 1966-1982 / Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest --

Part V. Decline of the Black Panther Party: Lumpenization : a critical error of the Black Panther Party / Chris Booker ; The Black Panther Party : state repression and political prisoners / Winston A. Grady-Willis ; Explaining the demise of the Black Panther Party : the role of the internal factors / Ollie A. Johnson, III --

Part VI. Legacy of the Black Panther Party: Set our warriors free : the legacy of the Black Panther Party and political prisoners / Akinyele Omowale Umoja ; To fight for the people : the Black Panther Party and black politics in the 1990s / Clarence Lusane.