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Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party.(Book review)
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The Journal of African American History
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September 22, 2007| Author:
Baptiste, Bala
| COPYRIGHT 2007 Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Curtis J. Austin, Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. Pp. 456. Cloth, $34.95.
The subtitle of Curtis J. Austin's book Up Against the Wall indicates that internal and external violence played major roles in the making and unmaking of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). The Oakland, California-based group of armed militants set out beginning in 1966 to c...
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