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Huey P. Newton’s memoir, 'Revolutionary Suicide,' charts his rise from Oakland’s impoverished streets to founding the Black Panther Party, blending candid autobiography with a radical manifesto.

Peniel E. Joseph delivers a compelling biography of civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael, tracing his rise from nonviolent activism to the iconic proponent of Black Power and exploring its impact on 1960s America.

In the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism. Unique in his belief that the destiny of African Americans could not be separated from that of oppressed people the world over, Carmichael's Black Power principles insisted that blacks resist white brainwashing and redefine themselves. He was concerned not only with racism and exploitation, but with cultural integrity and the colonization of Africans in America. In these essays on racism, Black Power, the pitfalls of conventional liberalism, and solidarity with the oppressed masses and freedom fighters of all races and creeds, Carmichael addresses questions that still confront the black world and points to a need for an ideology of black and African liberation, unification, and transformation.

An authoritative history tracing the origins, growth, and key personalities of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement from 1953 to 1963.

A biography of Bayard Rustin, focusing on his work as a civil rights organizer and strategist, including his role in the Montgomery bus boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

"Daniel Levine has written the first scholarly biography that examines Rustin's public as well as private persona in light of his struggles as a gay black man and as an activist who followed his own principles and convictions."--BOOK JACKET.

A revolutionary text by Frantz Fanon, providing insight into the fight for freedom and national culture in decolonization era.