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Exhibition curator Sam Durant has compiled the following web sites and bibliography for further information on contributors to Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas (New York: Rizzoli, 2007),  the Black Panther Party, and related areas of interest:

Web Sites

A Black Panthers Archive arranged by Billy X
itsabouttimebpp.com

Black Panther Founder Bobby Seale
bobbyseale.com

Center for the Study of Political Graphics
politicalgraphics.org

The National Coalition to Free the Angola 3
angola3.org

Critic Colette Gaiter
digidiva.net

Poet Amiri Baraka
amiribaraka.com

Poet Sonia Sanchez
poets.org

Artist Mike Kelley
mikekelley.com

Artist Malaquias Montoya
malaquiasmontoya.com

Photographer Stephen Shames
stephenshames.com

East Oakland Arts Alliance
eastsideartsalliance.com

Filmmaker St. Clair Bourne’s Chamba Mediaworks
chambamedia.com

Filmmaker St. Clair Bourne’s blog
chambanotes.com

Musicians Destroy all Monsters
myspace.com/destroyallmonstersdetroit

Musicians The Coup
thecoupmusic.net

 

Books

Abu-Jamal, Mumia. We Want Freedom. Cambridge: South End Press, 2004.

Baruch, Ruth-Marion and Pirkle Jones. Black Panthers 1968. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2002.

Brown, Elaine. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story. New York: Anchor Books, 1992.

Churchill, Ward and Jim Vander Wall. Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Cambridge: South End Press, 2002.

Cleaver, Kathleen and George Katsiaficas, ed. Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party. New York and London: Routledge, 2001.

Cushing, Lincoln. ¡Revolución! Cuban Poster Art. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003.

Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York: Bantam Books, 1975.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1963.

Jackson, George. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.

Jones, Charles E., ed. The Black Panther Party Reconsidered. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998.

Newton, Huey P. Revolutionary Suicide. New York: Writers and Readers Publishing, 1995.

Seale, Bobby. Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1991.

Shakur, Assata. Assata, An Autobiography. Chicago, Lawrence Hill Books, 1987.

Shames, Stephen. The Black Panthers. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2006.

Williams, Robert F. Negroes With Guns. New York: Marzani & Mansell, 1962.

X, Malcolm and Alex Haley. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Grove Press, 1992.

Audio and Video

Douglas, Emory. Interviewed by Mumia Abu-Jamal. Emory Douglas Talks with Mumia-Abu-Jamal, May 2, 2004, San Francisco: Prison Radio.
prisonradio.org

UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: The Black Panther Party
lib.berkeley.edu

Articles

Heller, Steven. “Instant Messages.” New York Times (April 8, 2007).

Raiford, Leigh. “Emory Douglas Meets Code Z.” Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now (August 9, 2007).

Zack, Jessica W. "Black The Black Panthers advocated armed struggle. Emory Douglas' weapon of choice? The pen." San Francisco Chronicle (March 28, 2007): E-1.

 

 

 

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