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Nine lives of a Black Panther, a story of survival, Wayne Pharr

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Nine lives of a Black Panther, a story of survival, Wayne Pharr

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eng

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autobiography

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Nine lives of a Black Panther

Oclc number

863596630

Responsibility statement

Wayne Pharr

Sub title

a story of survival

Summary

"In the early morning hours of December 8, 1969, hundreds of SWAT officers engaged in a violent battle with a handful of Los Angeles-based members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). Five hours and 5,000 rounds of ammunition later, three SWAT team members and three Black Panthers lay wounded. For the Panthers and the community that supported them, the shootout symbolized a victory, and a key reason for that victory was the actions of a 19-year-old rank-and-file member of the BPP: Wayne Pharr. Nine Lives of a Black Panther tells Pharr's riveting story of life in the Los Angeles branch of the BPP and gives a blow-by-blow account of how it prepared for and survived the massive attack. He illuminates the history of one of the most dedicated, dynamic, vilified, and targeted chapters of the BPP, filling in a missing piece of Black Panther history and, in the process, creating an engaging and hard-to-put-down memoir about a time and place that holds tremendous fascination for readers interested in African American militancy"--, Provided by publisher

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9 lives of a Black Panther

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