Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

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Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
Written by Kekla Magoon
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781536228168
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Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

author: Kekla Magoon

In this National Book Award Finalist, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Black Panther Party, from their history to their community activism, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers’ story has been treated as a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members—mostly women—and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens.

A Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book, Revolution in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Kekla Magoon’s eye-opening work invites a new generation of readers grappling with injustices in the United States to learn from the Panthers’ history and courage, inspiring them to take their own place in the ongoing fight for justice.

“Exceedingly well researched, illustrated, and sourced. . . . This rounded accounting of a pivotal but often-overlooked time in U.S. history should be widely read.” —Booklist (starred review)
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isbn-10/isbn-13:
1536228168 /  9781536228168
on sale date:
08/2023
type/format:
Non-Fiction / Paperback
age range:
12 yrs and up
# of pages/size:
400 / 7 1/2" x 10"
grade range:
Grade 7 and up
 
subjects:
Biography & Autobiography; History; African American & Black; Social Topics;
author’s comments:
Kekla Magoon's young adult novel The Rock and the River, which won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award, was the first mainstream novel for young people to feature the Black Panther Party. She is the Margaret A. Edwards Award-winning author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including Fire in the Streets and How It Went Down. She is also the coauthor, with Ilyasah Shabazz, of X: A Novel, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and received an NAACP Image Award and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Kekla Magoon grew up in Indiana and now lives in Vermont, where she serves on the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
 
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