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Author:

Murch, Donna Jean.

Title:

Living for the city : migration, education, and the rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California / Donna Jean Murch.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiv, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Oakland--Oakland--Politics and government--20th century.
African Americans--Oakland--Oakland--Social conditions--20th century.
African Americans--Southern States--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--California--History--20th century.
Education, Higher--California--History--20th century.
Black Panther Party--History.
Oakland (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Oakland (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references 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.

Series:

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.

ISBN:

0807871133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807871133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807833762 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807833766 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)441211712

LCCN:

2010013694

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)