A personal memoir of a Black Panther Party Central Committee member recounts his rise from an angry youth to the head of the Buddha Samurai cadre, a period during which he secretly worked to organize resistance efforts to police brutality and promote the black liberation movement. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Despite the growing scholarly interest in the Civil Rights movement, to date there has been no comprehensive examination of the Black Power movement. Black Power in the Belly of the Beast fills this gap by providing the first in-depth look at the Black Power movement from the 1963 founding of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) to the Black Power Movement's demise in the mid 1970s...read more

Product Description: David Hilliard was the Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, and this is his compelling eyewitness account of America's first black armed revolutionary movement. Written with the participation of many other Party members, this book provides firsthand accounts of Huey Newton's infamous shootout with the police, the murder of Fred Hampton, how Panther money was raised and spent, the sexual mores of the Party, and how illegal activities erupted and were controlled...read more