Living for the city : migration, education, and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California

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OCLC: ocn707924290
ISBN: 0807833762
ISBN: 9780807833766
ISBN: 0807871133
ISBN: 9780807871133
ISBN: 1469606259
ISBN: 9781469606255
ISBN: 0807895857
ISBN: 9780807895856
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Published: Chapel Hill :The University of North Carolina Press,[2010]
Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Copyright: ©2010

Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-303) and index.
Contents:	Introduction -- City of migrants, 1940-1960 -- Canaan bound -- Fortress California -- The campus and the street, 1961-1966 -- We care enough to tell it -- A campus where Black power won -- Black power and urban movement, 1966-1982 -- Men with guns -- Survival pending revolution -- A chicken in every bag.
Summary:	In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Murch explores how black southern migrants formed the Black Panther Party (BPP) during an era of expansion and political struggle in California's system of public higher education. The BPP started with a study group, she argues. In the face of social crisis and police violence, the most disfranchised sectors of the East Bay's African American community--young, poor, and migrant--challenged the legitimacy of state authorities and of an older generation of black leadership.