The Black Panthers

Name: The Beautiful Struggle
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
ISBN: 9780385520362

The Beautiful Struggle

A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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First Published:
May 6, 2008, 240 pages

Paperback:
Jan 2009, 240 pages

Book Reviewed by:
Stacey Brownlie
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- Biography & Memoir
- USA
- Mid-Atlantic, USA
- South, USA
- Md. Del.
- 20th Century (multiple decades)
- Parenting & Families
- Coming of Age
- Adult-YA Crossover Fiction
- Black Authors
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The Black Panthers

This article relates to The Beautiful Struggle

The author's father, Paul Coates, was a member of the Black Panther Party. As Coates describes in his book, the Party's original aims concerned self-defense and social justice. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the Party in 1966. Its diverse membership, however, made cohesion difficult and produced geographically clustered varieties of the socialism, counter-culturalism and Black Nationalism for which the Party became known. The Black Panthers frequently clashed with law enforcement: FBI Counter Intelligence Programs (COINTELPRO), for example, investigated the group's alleged connections to communism and hate-related violence across the U.S. Many in the Black community felt that the police and government were unfairly targeting the Panthers.

Berkeley Library offers an online collection of Black Panther history and chronology.

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Article by Stacey Brownlie

This "beyond the book article" relates to The Beautiful Struggle. It originally ran in June 2008 and has been updated for the January 2009 paperback edition. Go to magazine.