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

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People - Paperback

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Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People - Paperback

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People - Paperback

by Kekla Magoon
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by Kekla Magoon (Author)

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.

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.

Author Biography

Kekla Magoon is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Secret Library and many other fiction and nonfiction titles for young readers, including X: A Novel, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz; the Blue Stars series, cowritten with Cynthia Leitich Smith and illustrated by Molly Murakami; and Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People. She has received the Margaret A. Edwards Award, an NAACP Image Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and four Coretta Scott King Honors, among others. Kekla Magoon lives in Montpelier, Vermont, and teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Number of Pages: 400
Dimensions: 0.9 x 10 x 7.5 IN
Publication Date: August 08, 2023
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8
Reading Level: 9.2
Point Value: 14
ISBN9781536228168
Author Kekla Magoon
PublisherCandlewick Press (MA)
GenreYoung adult, Society & culture, History, and Biography
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages400
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids and Teens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Young Adult Biography & Autobiography Young Adult History Young Adult Nonfiction Young Adults

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