Ocean State Libraries

"Tells the story of Black Panther Party and its place in the civil rights movement."--

"October 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. Photojournalist Bryan Shih, who has been interviewing and taking portraits of the surviving Panthers around the country for years, has partnered with Yohuru Williams, dean and history professor at Fairfield University, to deliver the definitive celebration of the Black Panthers. Part oral history, part scrapbook, this is a beautifully produced book of forty-five...

"Writing from the barren confines of his death row cell, Mumia Abu-Jamal provides a remarkable testament about the Black Panther Party...an amazing book that illuminates the truth of what his membership in the Party was about, and reveals the extreme price extracted from him for having learned, and for now telling the truth." -Kathleen Cleaver, from the Introduction Mumia Abu Jamal, America's most famous political prisoner, is internationally known...

Presents bold graphics, photographs, and collages created by Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party's newspaper art director and later the party's Minister of Culture. "Discusses Douglas's seminal role in the crafting of the party's visual identity and cultural programs and his lasting influence on generations of artists and designers." -- Dust jacket.

"The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails. Master documentarian Stanley Nelson goes straight to the source, weaving a treasure trove of rare archival footage with the voices of the people who were there: police,...

This work is a look at how the Black Panthers became symbols of black militancy in America. The Sixties may be over, but the Black Panthers, the ultimate symbol of black power, radical inspiration, and the excesses of the decade, live on. Books on the Panthers continue to be written, hip-hop artists continue to draw inspiration from them, and so many films are made about the Panthers that there is now an annual Black Panther film festival. In this...

"This is the third volume in Judson L. Jeffries's long-range effort to paint a more complete portrait of the most widely known organization to emerge from the 1960s Black Power Movement. Like its predecessors, this volume looks at Black Panther Party (BPP) activity in sites outside Oakland, the most studied BPP locale and the one long associated with oversimplified and underdeveloped narratives about, and distorted images of, the organization. The...

RAISIN IN THE SUN: Follows the members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment. After the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money. A deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. SELMA: Covers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people -- a dangerous and terrifying...