Records
Revolutionary Suicide
Huey P. Newton's 1973 autobiography (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), written in part from inside the Alameda County Jail. Co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (Oakland, October 1966), Newton wrote the book during and after his 1968–1970 imprisonment on charges arising from the October 28, 1967 shooting that killed Oakland police officer John Fr...
The Black Panther Newspaper, 1967–1968 (Internet Archive collection — Vols. 1–2, 18 issues)
Internet Archive bulk collection mirroring eighteen issues of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service covering 1967 and 1968 — the BPP newspaper's foundational period. Includes the complete six-issue run of Volume 1 (April–December 1967) and twelve of the fifteen Volume 2 issues from 1968. The 1967–1968 issues document the Party's transition from a l...
The Black Panther Newspaper, 1971–1980 (Marxists Internet Archive — ~349 issues, the post-1970 run)
Marxists Internet Archive's digitization of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service / Intercommunal News Service across 1971–1980 — roughly 349 issues spanning Volume 5 through the paper's final volumes, the entire run after the 1967–1970 collection that anchors this archive. These issues document the Party's second decade: the 1971 split between Hue...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service — Vol. 1 No. 1 (April 25, 1967, founding issue)
The founding issue of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Published April 25, 1967 from the Party's Bay Area headquarters, less than six months after Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the BPP in Oakland in October 1966. The four-page launch number carried the editorial that...
The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service — Vol. XII No. 3 (August 10, 1974)
Issue of The Black Panther published weeks before Huey P. Newton's flight to Cuba, led by Elaine Brown's press statement — "They are trying to kill Huey P. Newton" — on the Fox nightclub arrests of Newton and seven other Party members. Also carries part 3 of the parole interview with Wesley Robert "Bob" Wells after 47 years in California prisons, the Atmore-...