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BOOKS BY BLACK PANTHERS

Assata Shakur Assata: An Autobiography

Huey P Newton To Die for The People

Framed, tortured, and imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit, Black Panther Assata Shakur tells the story of her life, her escape, and her unbroken commitment to Black liberation.

The collected speeches and essays of the Black Panther Party's co-founder, laying out with clarity and fire exactly what the movement believed and what it demanded.

Emory Douglas Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas

Bobby Seale Seize the Time

The Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party created the visual language of Black Power — this is the collected work of one of the most radical artists in American history.

The Story of The Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton is a 1970 book by political activist Bobby Seale. 

  1. DRIVE BY THE MOVEMENT: REPORTS FROM THE BLACK POWER ERA by Jonina Abron-Ervin
  2. MURDER INCORPORATED: EMPIRE, GENOCIDE, MANIFEST DESTINY by Mumia Abu-Jamal & Stephen Vittoria
  3. WE WANT FREEDOM: A LIFE IN THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY by Mumia Abu-Jamal
  4. STILL BLACK, STILL STRONG: SURVIVORS OF THE WAR AGAINST BLACK REVOLUTIONARIES by Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur & Mumia Abu-Jamal
  5. A TASTE OF POWER: A BLACK WOMAN'S STORY by Elaine Brown
  6. THE WAR BEFORE by Safiya Bukhari
  7. SOUL ON ICE by Eldridge Cleaver
  8. TARGET ZERO by Eldridge Cleaver
  9. LIBERATION, IMAGINATION, AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY by Kathleen Cleaver & George Katsiaficas
  10. THE GREATEST THREAT: THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND COINTELPRO by Marshall Edward Conway
  11. MAKING REVOLUTION: MY LIFE IN THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY by Donald L. Cox
  12. MY PEOPLE ARE RISING: MEMOIR OF A BLACK PANTHER PARTY CAPTAIN by Aaron Dixon
  13. DIE STANDING: FROM BLACK PANTHER REVOLUTIONARY TO GLOBAL DIVERSITY CONSULTANT by Elmer Dixon
  14. BLACK PANTHER: THE REVOLUTIONARY ART OF EMORY DOUGLAS by Emory Douglas
  15. THE BLACK PANTHERS SPEAK by Philip S. Foner
  16. WILL YOU DIE WITH ME?: MY LIFE AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY by Flores Forbes
  17. HUEY: SPIRIT OF THE PANTHER by David Hilliard
  18. THIS SIDE OF GLORY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DAVID HILLIARD AND THE STORY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY by David Hilliard
  19. MAROON THE IMPLACABLE: THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF RUSSELL MAROON SHOATZ by Fred Ho & Quincy Saul
  20. BLOOD IN MY EYE by George Jackson
  21. SOLEDAD BROTHER: THE PRISON LETTERS OF GEORGE JACKSON by George Jackson
  22. POETRY AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY by Regina Jennings
  23. PANTHER BABY by Jamal Joseph
  24. FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE HEAP: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLACK PANTHER ROBERT HILLARY KING by Robert Hillary King
  25. TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE by Huey P. Newton
  26. REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE by Huey P. Newton
  27. WAR AGAINST THE PANTHERS: A STUDY OF REPRESSION IN AMERICA by Huey P. Newton
  28. BLACK PANTHER PARTY: SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE PROGRAMS by Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
  29. LOOK FOR ME IN THE WHIRLWIND: FROM THE PANTHER 21 TO 21ST-CENTURY REVOLUTIONS by Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad & Jamal Joseph
  30. A LONELY RAGE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BOBBY SEALE by Bobby Seale
  31. POWER TO THE PEOPLE: THE WORLD OF THE BLACK PANTHERS by Bobby Seale & Stephen Shames
  32. SEIZE THE TIME: THE STORY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND HUEY P. NEWTON by Bobby Seale
  33. ASSATA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Assata Shakur
  34. COMRADE SISTERS: WOMEN OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY by Stephen Shames & Ericka Huggins
  35. SOLITARY: UNBROKEN BY FOUR DECADES IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT by Albert Woodfox

BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOOK LIST

At its founding in 1966, the Black Panther Party established a required reading list that served as the ideological foundation for every member. New Panthers were expected to study works by thinkers like Mao Zedong, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, and W.E.B. Du Bois before they could fully participate in party operations. This wasn't casual recommendation — it was political education as a condition of membership, reflecting the Party's belief that liberation required theory as much as action. To be a Panther was to be a student first.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X by Malcolm X
WRETCHED OF THE EARTH by Frantz Fanon
I SPEAK OF FREEDOM by Kwame Nkrumah
THE LOST CITIES OF AFRICA by Basil Davidson
THE NAT TURNER SLAVE REVOLT by Herbert Aptheker
AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVE REVOLTS by Herbert Aptheker
A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE IN THE U.S. by Herbert Aptheker
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER by Lerone Bennett Jr.
AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY — STORY OF THE NEGRO by Arna W. Bontemps
BLACK MOSES (THE STORY OF GARVEY AND THE UNIA) by E.D. Cronin
BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA — SOULS OF BLACK FOLK by W.E.B. DuBois
THE WORLD AND AFRICA by W.E.B. DuBois
BLACK MOTHER, THE YEARS OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE by Basil Davidson
STUDIES IN A DYING COLONIALISM by Frantz Fanon
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM — NEGRO IN THE UNITED STATES by John Hope Franklin
BLACK BOURGEOISIE by C.F. Frazier
THE OTHER AMERICA by Michael Harrington
GARVEY & GARVEYISM — THE PHILOSOPHY & OPINIONS OF GARVEYISM by Marcus Garvey
THE MYTH OF THE NEGRO PAST by Melville J. Herskovits
A HISTORY OF NEGRO REVOLTS by C.L.R. James
MUNTU: THE NEW AFRICAN CULTURE by John Janheinz
BLUES PEOPLE by LeRoi Jones
BLACK MUSLIMS IN AMERICA by C.E. Lincoln
MALCOLM X SPEAKS by Malcolm X
THE COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED by Albert Memmi
GHANA by Kwame Nkrumah
WE CHARGE GENOCIDE by William L. Patterson
AFRICA'S GIFT TO AMERICA by J.A. Rogers
WORLD'S GREAT MEN OF COLOR, 3,000 B.C. TO 1946 A.D. by J.A. Rogers
THE NEGRO IN OUR HISTORY by Charles H. Wesley & Carter G. Woodson
THE STRANGE CAREER OF JIM CROW by C. Van Woodward
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright