**A National Book Award Finalist
A Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book
A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book
With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of
the Black Panthers--as militant revolutionaries and as human rights
advocates working to defend and protect their community.*
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In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the
Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers'
community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, 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 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.
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.
