The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs

by David Hilliard and Huey P. Newton Foundation

Book Overview

The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members' coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. The Party pioneered free social service programs that are now in the mainstream of American life. The Party's Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation, operated with Oakland's Children's Hospital, was among the nation's first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826343945
• ISBN13: 9780826343949
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"