The Black Panther Party co-founder's autobiography moves from his Oakland childhood and self-education to the founding of the Panthers in 1966, his 1967 arrest and manslaughter trial, and his travels to China and Cuba. Framing the narrative is his signature concept: "revolutionary suicide" — the willingness to risk death in resistance to oppression — set against the slow spiritual death of submission. Part memoir, part political testament, it is the defining first-person statement of the Panther era.
Author: Huey P. Newton, with J. Herman Blake · Original publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1973
