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Black Against Empire

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by Joshua Bloom


  prison: Alameda County jail, antiwar activists; Attica; Black Panther’s Ten Point Program; Bunchy Carter; Eldridge Cleaver; Communists; Comstock; Folsom; Free Busing to Prison Program; Hampton; George Jackson; Jackson State Prison, Michigan; Warren Kimbro; Lumumba; Malcolm X’s ten-point program; Muntaqim; Murray; Nation of Islam’s rehabilitation programs for black male prisoners; Newton (1964); Newton (70), New York 21; O’Neal; Pratt, ,64; Sams; San Quentin branch of the Black Panther Party; Seale; Sekou Odinga; Soledad; Vacaville; Young Lords challenging Board of Corrections on conditions in; Young Lords in. See also political prisoners; prisoners of war (POWs)

  prisoners of war (POWs), Americans in Vietnam (to be exchanged for release of U.S.-jailed Panthers)

  Proctor, Roscoe

  Progressive Labor Party,

  protests: Civil Rights Movement, Comfort organizing, See also antiwar activism; armed resistance to authority; marches; rallies; revolutionary movements; riots; student protests; urban rebellions

  Providence Journal-Bulletin

  provocateurs. See informants and provocateurs

  Puerto Ricans: New York neighborhood; “Tengo Puerto Rico en Mi Corazón” (I Have Puerto Rico in my Heart), See also Young Lords

  Puerto Rico: antiwar protests; liberation politics; U.S. territory; Young Lords in. See also Puerto Ricans

  purges: Black Panther Party, .

  Quebeçois secessionists

  Queens: Corona Queens Black Panther chapter; Lumumba and Sekou Odinga schooling; People for the People

  Rackley, Alex; killing of, torture of,

  “Radical Chic” (Wolfe)

  radio: Afro-American Association; bail support plea; “Radio Free Dixie,” Richmond Panthers monitoring police; Voice of Vietnam

  Rafferty, Max

  “Rainbow Coalition,” Chicago

  Raines, Earl E.

  rallies; antiwar, vs. Chicago repression; Kathleen Cleaver; vs. Cuba blockade by U.S.; free food and shoes; “Free Huey!,” , Hunters Point supporters, Hutton funeral; Hutton Park, King assassination (1968); vs. Los Angeles police raids, Mulford Act vs. guns at; Newark “police brutality protest,” for New Haven Panthers and Seale, New Left solidarity with Panthers; Newton’s birthday celebrations, New York Black Panthers and allies, Philadelphia Black Panther Party, plebiscite campaign; Puerto Ricans at Chicago police station; Richmond; San Francisco State College; Scandinavian Left allies, SNCC, SSAC; street-corner; Tiananmen Square, UC Berkeley, Young Socialist Alliance, Yuen collection

  Ralph Avenue Community Center, Brooklyn, Free Breakfast for Children Program

  RAM. See Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)

  Ramos, Manuel

  Ramparts magazine: Jan Austin; Avakian; Eldridge Cleaver; Community for a New Politics (CNP), editor Robert Scheer, “Free Huey!” campaign; Horowitz, Keating publisher of; on Officer Frey; Sacramento gun law delegation; Shabazz interview

  Rangers gang, Chicago,

  rape: by Eldridge Cleaver; by Sams

  Rappaport, Randy

  Rayner, A. A.

  Reading, John

  Reagan, Ronald: California gubernatorial elections (1966); Eldridge Cleaver lecture censorship; “Law and Order” politics, Oakland freeway project; and Sacramento gun law delegation; vs. student strikes,

  rebellions. See urban rebellions

  Rector, James

  Redd, Paul

  Red Guard

  Redman, Joyce

  Reed, Rich

  Reitan, Ruth,

  repression: mobilization level influenced by level of, UC Berkeley toward Stop the Draft Week (mid-October 1967), Yale’s first response to students. See also “Law and Order” politics; military services; state repression; violence

  Republican Party: backlash against (1976); elections (1964), elections (1968), Oakland electoral dominance; for war. See also Nixon, Richard M.

  Republic of New Afrika

  Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)

  resilience, Black Panther, through allies, anti-imperialist politics, greatest growth of Party during greatest state repression (mid-1968 through 1970), poverty focus and identification. See also Black Panther Party allies; insurgent movements

  resonance: of insurgent practices, of liberal criticisms; Newton’s understanding of; political context-specific; women in Panther chapters creating. See also allies; Black Panther Party appeal; mobilization

  respectability, FBI preventing black nationalists from

  Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM); antiwar; Black Panther Party (Harlem branch); Black Panther Party of Northern California, Cuba, Detroit; FBI targeting, Newton expansion on; “Paper Panthers,” Soul Students Advisory Council (SSAC)

  revolutionary black nationalism, all organizations declining around same time; anti-imperialism; cultural, ghetto rebellions; guerilla warfare by; Malcolm X; mobilization (late 1960s); political opportunity thesis and; Progressive Labor Party helping, Seale at North Oakland Neighborhood Anti-Poverty Center. See also black nationalists; COINTELPRO (FBI) vs. political organizations; Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)

  revolutionary black nationalism—Black Panther Party, community programs as; cultural; gendered; Hutton as martyr of; ideological phase, motherhood for; and other black insurgent movements; “Rainbow Coalition,” San Francisco State student strike; Ten Point Program; women. See also Black Panther Party political ideology; COINTELPRO (FBI) vs. Black Panther Party; vanguard party, Black Panther

  “Revolutionary Conference for a United Front Against Fascism” (UFAF), Oakland,

  “revolutionary consciousness,”

  “revolutionary intercommunalism,”

  revolutionary movements; Algeria, American Revolution, antiwar; “armchair revolutionaries,” China; “The Correct Handling of a Revolution” (Newton), creative politically; defined; European, gender; Gramsci theory, ideational; “in the air” (late 1960s), Malcolm X recommending; New Left; Puerto Rican; “Rainbow Coalition,” Red Guard; San Quentin; today; UFAF, urban rebellions. See also anti-imperialism; armed resistance to authority; Black Panther Party allies—international; insurgent movements; mobilization; revolutionary black nationalism; revolutionary vanguard

  “revolutionary suicide,”

  revolutionary vanguard: New York 21 and Weather Underground. See also vanguard party, Black Panther

  R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Factory, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

  Rhodes, Jane

  Rhodesia, anticolonial struggles

  Ribicoff, Abraham

  Richardson, Gloria

  Richmond, California; Black Panther armed resistance (1967), Black Panther chapter, community programs, Dowell killing (1967); police brutality

  Ricks, Willie

  Right On! newspaper

  Riley, Patricia

  Rios, Jose

  riots: Comstock Prison; Detroit unrest characterized as. See also urban rebellions

  Rivera, Geraldo

  Rivera, Ralph

  Rivers, Jerry

  Roberson, Larry

  Robeson, Paul

  Robinson, Candi

  Robinson, Cedric

  Robinson, Ruby Doris

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  Rodriquez, Nelson

  Roldán, Julio

  Rolling Stone, Murray opinion piece

  Roper, Lee (Shaba Ogun Om)

  ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps)

  Rubin, Jerry

  Ruckelshaus, William

  Ruiz, Ralph

  Rules of the Black Panther Party,

  Rush, Bobby; arrest; in Black Panther newspaper, Black Panthers as local Oakland community organization (mid-1972); church mobilization; factionalism; vs. FBI tactics; Hampton and Clark killings; Oakland consolidation; teaming up with Hampton,

  Rusk, Dean

  Rutgers, student strike

  Sacramento: Black Panther chapter; police raiding Panther office

  Sacramento gun law delegation (1967), Afeni Shakur impressed by; arrests, Eldridge Cleaver; Hilliard par
ticipation; legal bills; New York Times Magazine, RAM claiming credit for; Seale speech on, Seattle chapter emulating, Ten Point Program distributed after, women Panthers

  Safford, Will

  salute, Panther,

  Sampson, Edward

  Sams, George,

  San Diego: Black Panther chapter, police brutality; US shooting of Bell

  San Francisco: Axelrod’s house; black community; Black Panther chapter, Black Panther Party for Self-Defense’s Executive Mandate #2; Central Labor Council; Chinatown; “Free Huey!” rallies; Hunters Point Matthew Johnson killing (1966), Mission Rebels; police brutality, Shabazz airport escort (1967), Spring Mobilizations against the War in New York and San Francisco (1967); street-corner rallies; student strikes, Sun Reporter, West Coast Black Student Union conference; West Coast Mobilization against the Vietnam War; Western Addition Community organization

  San Francisco Chronicle: “Cops Beat Pickets” (draft resisters); Free Breakfast for Children Program at St. Augustine’s; Hutton killing; Sacramento gun law delegation (1967)

  San Francisco Examiner, Newton penthouse,

  San Francisco State College; Asian American Studies Department; Asians, Black Panther Party; Black Panther rallies; Black Student Union (BSU); black studies, “Bloody Tuesday,” Daily Gater; Equal Opportunity Program; ethnic studies, Hare; Hayakawa; La Raza Studies Department; Murray, Newton; Open Process; student strike, student strike allies; Third World Community Day; Third World Liberation Front (TWLF)

  sanitation work, New York Puerto Rican neighborhood

  sanitation workers’ strike, Memphis, Tennessee

  Sankey, Barbara

  San Quentin branch, Black Panther Party

  Sarah Lawrence, student strike

  Satchel, Ronald

  Scandinavia: Black Panther allies, Left Wing Socialist Party of Denmark; solidarity committees,

  Scheer, Robert,

  Schwerner, Michael

  SCLC. See Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

  Scott, Sandra

  SDS. See Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

  Seale, Artie

  Seale, Bobby; Air Force; antiwar coalition; arrested (March 1966); arrested (1967); arrested (1969), Attica Prison uprising; Berkeley High School; birth; Black Panther newspaper, vs. black political organizations; Black Student Union Statewide Convention (October 26, 1968); vs. bullies; Bunchy Carter funeral; Chairman, Chicago Eight trial; and Chicago Panthers, community programs; Eldridge Cleaver factionalism condemned by; Kathleen Cleaver scheduled to speak on behalf of (1971); Coalition to Defend the Panthers; “The Coming Long Hot Summer,” community program advocacy; CORE event; Democratic Convention (1968), Aaron Dixon meeting; Douglas graphic in Black Panther newspaper, executive mandates read by; family poverty; first wife Artie; founding Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, “Free Huey!” campaign, global support; Hutton funeral; Hutton killing (1968); Hutton Park rally; George Jackson funeral; and killing of Matthew Johnson by police, left Party (1973); membership frozen by; Merritt College; metalworking skills; New Haven fund-raising; New Haven trial, Newton birthday celebration (1968), Newton meeting; Newton-Seale incident vs. police (1967); Newton trial; North Oakland Neighborhood Anti-Poverty Center; Oakland mayor run; Pan-African Cultural Festival; Panther logo/symbol, parents; photos, plebiscite campaign; police raiding home of; primary policy setter; prison; public speaking, RAM; Richmond armed resistance; Rules of the Black Panther Party, Sacramento gun law delegation, Scandinavia tour; SDS Black Power conference, Seize the Time, Los Siete de la Raza supported by; SNCC merger (1968), Southern California chapter; student strike support; Ten Point Program, traffic ticket; UC Berkeley speech on Party’s political positions; UFAF conference.

  Seale, John

  Sears, David O.

  Seattle, police

  Seattle Black Panther chapter, community programs, gun law protest,

  Seberg, Jean,

  segregation: de facto (after Civil Rights Movement victories). See also Jim Crow/legal segregation

  Seize the Time (Bobby Seale),

  Sekou Odinga

  self-defense. See armed resistance to authority; Black Panther Party political practices—armed self-defense

  self-determination—black community: Black Panthers championing; community programs furthering; Democratic Party issues; Hutton standing for; MOBE supporting; and other struggles for self-determination; police brutality as barrier to; police monitoring as assertion of; San Francisco State students supporting; Ten Point Program

  Senate investigation, purges for cooperation with

  Seniors Escorts Program

  separatism: Black Panther Party rejecting; Chicago curfew; of New Black Panther Party

  sex: Black Panther women and; homosexual, interracial couples, liberation politics; misogyny; normative heterosexuality; rape; sexism; sexual revolution. See also gender issues

  Shabazz, Betty,

  The Shadow of the Panther (Pearson)

  Shakur, Afeni; December 4 Movement; mother of Tupac Shakur, New York 21, prison

  Shakur, Assata

  Shakur, Lumumba,

  Shakur, Tupac,

  Shakur, Zayd

  Shames, Stephen,

  Shannon, William

  Shellow, Robert

  Shepp, Archie

  shootings—of blacks by law enforcement: Chicago; Detroit rebellion; Dowell in Richmond (1967); Hutton and others (Oakland, April 6, 1968), Matthew Johnson (Hunters Point), Katara witnessing; Lima, Ohio, Los Angeles; Meredith (march from Memphis to Jackson); Newark; Newton (1967), Sacramento police raid of Black Panther office; SNCC rally (1966). See also killings of blacks by law enforcement

  shootings—of Puerto Ricans by police

  Los Siete de la Raza

  Simone, Nina

  Six-Day War (1967), Arab-Israeli

  SLANT (Self Leadership for All Nationalities Today)

  Slater, Jimmy

  Slauson gang

  Slauson Renegades

  Sloan, John

  Smith, Bernard

  Smith, Clinton “Rahim,”

  Smith, Jennifer

  Smith, John

  Smith, Kathleen

  Smith, Melvin “Cotton,”

  Smith, Mike

  Smith, Robert

  Smith, Ronald

  Smith Act

  SNCC. See Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

  social democracy, Black Panther

  socialism, Panthers’ commitment to

  Socialist Workers Party

  social movements, “strategic trace,” See also Black Power; Civil Rights Movement; insurgent movements; revolutionary movements

  Social Movements Project at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, UC Berkeley

  Social Workers Union, San Francisco State student strike allies

  Soledad Brother (George Jackson)

  Soledad State Prison: Bunchy Carter; Eldridge Cleaver; George Jackson

  Sontag, Susan

  Soto, John

  Soto, Michael

  Soulbook: The Revolutionary Journal of the Black World magazine

  Soul on Ice (Eldridge Cleaver)

  Soul Students Advisory Council (SSAC)

  South Africa: African National Congress (ANC); anticolonial struggles

  Southern California chapter of the Black Panthers; bail (1969); Bunchy Carter leadership, communications secretary Elaine Brown; Free Breakfast for Children Program; office, figs; police raids, figs; Pratt associates; Pratt in charge of; purges; Walter “Toure” Pope Community Center

  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Abernathy; black insurgent events initiated by, vs. black nationalism; decline, finances, Hampton and Clark killings; Martin Luther King, New York Times coverage, Operation Breadbasket

  South-West Africa, anticolonial struggles

  Spain, Johnny

  Special Prosecutions Unit (SPU), Chicago

  Special Weapons Assault Team (SWAT)

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nbsp; Squire, Clark

  SSAC (Soul Students Advisory Council)

  Stafford, Ellie

  Stafford, Will

  Stanford, Max

  Stanford University, student strike

  Stark, Ronald

  state concessions. See concessions

  state repression; vs. antiwar activists, guerilla warfare ineffective against; insurgent responses to, ,13; mobilization level in response to level of, in prison; vs. Republic of New Afrika; San Francisco State student strike; vs. student strikes emulating San Francisco State students; terrorists reinforcing; victimization of blacks. See also Black Panther Party, state repression of State University of New York

  St. Augustine’s Church, Oakland: Father Earl Neil, ,12; Free Breakfast for Children Program, ,12

  Stewart, Ben

  Stiner brothers, George and Larry

  St. Louis, antiwar protests

  Stokes, Louis

  Stone, I. F.

  Stone, Ronald

  stoplight campaign, Oakland

  Stop the Draft Week (mid-October 1967),

  St. Paul, antiwar protests

  “strategic genealogy” method

  “strategic trace,”

  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); antiwar; armed self-defense; Ella Baker; Black Panther merger (1968), Black Panthers eclipsing; Black Power; H. Rap Brown, Carmichael, Chicago; Detroit; dispute over police at “Free Huey!” rally; Aaron Dixon; draft resistance; FBI targeting, Ford; James Forman, fragmenting; “Hell no, we won’t go!,” Movement newspaper, New York; New York Times coverage, nonviolence; Panther symbol; PFP not supported by; SDS and, West Coast chapter; women

  student protests: forms of. See also student strikes

  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); anti-imperialism; Black Power Conference (1966), Columbia University; Democratic Convention (1968); draft resistance, expansion after Democratic Convention (1968); Harvard offshoot; Hayden; Hunters Point supporters, ideological split, Independent Caucus; Kent State; New Left Notes, Oglesby, Progressive Labor Party turn affecting, San Francisco State College; and SNCC, State University of New York; “Ten Days of Resistance,” UC Berkeley chapter, UFAF, Weather Underground break from; Yale

  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)—Black Panther support; Chicago; “Free Huey!” campaign, ; Kent State; law enforcement report on; National Council Resolution “The Black Panther Party: Toward the Liberation of the Colony” (1969), New Haven Coalition to Defend the Panthers; New Left Notes, New York; UFAF conference

 

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