Acknowledgments ix
Editors’ Note xi
Introduction: The Black Panthers and Historical Scholarship: Why Now? /
Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams 1
Part I. The Panthers through the Historian’s Lens
The Black Panther Party and the Long Civil Rights Era / Robert O. Self 15
Part II. The Panthers as American Revolutionaries
Introductory Comment: The Panthers and the Question of Violence / Rod Bush
59
In the Shadow of the Gun: The Black Panther Party, the Ninth Amendment, and
Discourses of Self-Defense / Bridgette Baldwin 67
Part III. From the Bottom Up and the Top Down: Personal Politics and the
Black Panthers
Introductory Comment: The Panthers and Local History / James T. Campbell 97
“A Rebel All His Life”: The Unexpected Story of Frank “Parky” Grace / Jama
Lazerow 104
WACing Off: Gossip, Sex, Race, and Politics in the World of FBI Special
Case Agent Williams A. Cohendet / Roz Payne 158
Part IV. Coalition Politics: The Panthers as a “Revolutionary Vanguard”
Introductory Comment: White Tigers, Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Oh My! /
Yohuru Williams 183
Invisible Cages: Racialized Politics and the Alliance between the Panthers
and the Peace and Freedom Party / Joel Wilson 191
Leading the Vanguard: White New Leftists School and Panthers on Black
Revolution / David Barber 223
Brown Power to Brown People: Radical Ethnic Nationalism, the Black
Panthers, and Latino Radicalism, 1967–1973 / Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar 252
Part V. Revolutionary Politics: The Black Panthers in the American
Imagination
Introductory Comment: “Culture Is a Weapon in Our Struggle for Liberation”:
The Black Panther Party and the Cultural Politics of Decolonization /
Davarian L. Baldwin 289
The Arm(ing) of the Vanguard, Signify(ing), and Performing the Revolution:
The Black Panther Party and Pedagogical Strategies for Interpreting a
Revolutionary Life / Tim Lake 306
Media Culture and the Public Memory of the Black Panther Party / Edward P.
Morgan 324
Contributors 375
Index 377
