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- The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
- The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword: Messages from the American Prison
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forerunners
- Part II Revolutionaries
- 3 No More Brothers in Jail
- 4 George Jackson and the Afterlives of “Full Revolt”
- 5 Angela Davis
- 6 Liberate Assata Shakur
- 7 Leonard Peltier’s Sun Dance
- 8 Mumia Abu-Jamal on Death Row
- Part III Witnesses
- Part IV Survivors
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
3 - No More Brothers in Jail
The Memoirs of Black Panther Party Leaders Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and Huey P. Newton
from Part II - Revolutionaries
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
- The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword: Messages from the American Prison
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Forerunners
- Part II Revolutionaries
- 3 No More Brothers in Jail
- 4 George Jackson and the Afterlives of “Full Revolt”
- 5 Angela Davis
- 6 Liberate Assata Shakur
- 7 Leonard Peltier’s Sun Dance
- 8 Mumia Abu-Jamal on Death Row
- Part III Witnesses
- Part IV Survivors
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
Summary
In this chapter three prison memoirs are recalled, detailing the stories of three men that significantly shaped the civil rights revolution during the 1960s. Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver wrote about their lives before prison, during the struggle, in prison, and after prison. They tell the story of the Black Panther Party and introduce the readers to their deepest feelings about life in America as oppressed Black men fighting for liberation. Nonetheless, their history stands apart
from other people who have written about this period simply because their personal journeys led them to prison and jail where these narratives were organized, outlined, and composed
as prison memoirs.
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