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From the Bullet to the Ballot : The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago
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ISBN: 1469608170 1469608162 9781469608167 9781469608174 9780807838167 0807838160 1469622106 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president of the NAACP Youth Council and continued to pursue a civil rights agenda when he became chairman of the revolutionary Chicago-based Black Panther Party. Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, fo

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