Seize the time : the story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton / Bobby Seale.

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"Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party, defendant in the Chicago conspiracy case, and one of the New Haven Panther 14, writes from jail about himself, his party, and its leadership -- the black men who have changed themselves, have changed America, and in the course of it, have caused an...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Main Author: Seale, Bobby, 1936-
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [1970]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
Subjects:
Black Panther Party.
Newton, Huey P.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biographies.
Local Note:
MSU: Copy 9 is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.
MSU: Copy 9 gift of Jack and Susan Davis.
MSU: Copy 9 in dust jacket.
Physical Description:xi, 429 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Growing up: Before the party:
  • Who I am
  • I meet Huey
  • Huey breaks with the cultural nationalists
  • The Soul Students Advisory Council
  • We hit the streets
  • Using the poverty program
  • Police-community relations
  • Huey: Getting the party going:
  • The Panther Program
  • Why we are not racists
  • Our first weapons
  • Red books for guns
  • Huey backs the pigs down
  • Badge 206
  • Huey and the traffic light
  • A gun at Huey's head
  • The Party Grows, Eldridge joins:
  • The Paper Panthers
  • Confrontation at Ramparts
  • Eldridge joins the Panthers
  • The death of Denzil Dowell
  • Picking up the gun:
  • Niggers with guns in the state capitol
  • Sacramento Jail
  • Bailing out the brothers
  • The Black Panther newspaper
  • Huey digs Bob Dylan
  • Serving time at Big Greystone
  • The shit comes down: "Free Huey!":
  • Free Huey!
  • A White lawyer for a Black revolutionary
  • Coalitions
  • Stokely comes to Oakland
  • Breaking down our doors
  • Shoot-out: the pigs kill Bobby Hutton
  • Getting on the ballot
  • Huey is tried for murder
  • Pigs, puritanism, and racism
  • Eldridge is free!
  • Our minister of information
  • Bunchy Carter and Bobby Hutton
  • Charles R. Garry: the Lenin of the courtroom
  • Chicago: Kidnapped, chained, tried, and gagged:
  • Kidnapped
  • To Chicago in chains
  • Cook County Jail
  • My constitutional rights are denied
  • Gagged, shackled, and bound
  • Yippies, convicts, and cops
  • Pigs, problems, politics, and Panthers:
  • Do-nothing terrorists and other problems
  • Why they raid our offices
  • Jackanapes, renegades, and agents provacateurs
  • Women and the Black Panther Party
  • "Off the pig," "motherfucker," and other terms
  • Party programs
  • serving the people
  • Seize the time.