Ebook: Huey P. Newton: the radical theorist
- Tags: African Americans, African Americans--Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government--20th century, Black power, Black power--United States, Radicals, Radicals--United States, Biographies, Biography, African Americans -- Biography, Radicals -- United States -- Biography, Black power -- United States, African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century, Newton Huey P. -- Political and social views, Black Panther Party -- Biography, African Americans -- Politics and government, Unit
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- City: Jackson;United States
- Language: English
- epub
Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp on Newton's drug use and on the circumstances of his death in a crack-related shooting. Liberals romanticize his black revolutionary rhetoric and idealize his message.
In Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist, Judson L. Jeffries considers the entire arc of Newton's political role and influence on civil rights history and African American thought. Jeffries argues that, contrary to popular belief, Newton was one of the most important political thinkers in the struggle for civil rights.
Huey P. Newton's political career spanned two decades. Like many freedom fighters, he was a complex figure. His international reputation was forged as much from his passionate defense of black liberation as from his highly publicized confrontations with police.
His courage to address police brutality won him admirers in ghettos, on college campuses, and...