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Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist

Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist

Jeffries, Judson L.
Jeffries, J. L.

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ISBN10: 1578068770
ISBN13: 9781578068777
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Jun 19 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.96 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
Huey P. Newton's powerful legacy to the Black Panther Movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp at Newton's drug use and at 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.

Stripped of history and interpretation, the violence of Newton's life brought emphatic indictments of him. Newton's death attracted widespread media attention. However, pundits offered little on Newton as freedom fighter or as theoretician and activist.

Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist dispels myths about Newton's life, but the book is primarily a

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