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

<b><b><i>A National Book Award Finalist</i></b><br><b><i>A Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book</i></b><br><i><b>A Michael L. Printz Honor Book</b><br><b>A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book </b></i><br><b><i><br></i>With passion and precision Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers&#151;as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community.</b><br></b><br><br>In this comprehensive inspiring and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers&#146; 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&#146; story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members&#151;mostly women&#151;and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens.<br><br><i>Revolution in Our Time</i> 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&#146;s eye-opening work invites a new generation of readers grappling with injustices in the United States to learn from the Panthers&#146; history and courage inspiring them to take their own place in the ongoing fight for justice.