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Black Panther Party: Select- Ed Essays for the 21St Century / J Reappraisal of the Black Panther Party: select- ed essays for the 21st century / J. Vern Cromartie 322.42097 CROMARTIE American justice on trial : People v. Newton / Lise Pearlman 345.79402 PEARLMAN The Black Panther Party : service to the peo- ple programs / the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foun- dation ; edited and with an afterword by Da- vid Hilliard ; foreword by Cornel West 362.8496 BLACK Homage to the black arts movement : a hand- book / Judy Juanita 810.9896 JUANITA The Black Panthers [videorecording] : van- ResourcesResources aboutabout thethe guard of the revolution / written, produced African American and directed by Stanley Nelson ; produced by Museum and Library BlackBlack PantherPanther PartyParty Laurens Grant ; a co-production of Firelight at Oakland Films, Inc. and the Independent Television From the African American Service (ITVS) ; produced by Firelight Films, Inc 659 14th St. Museum & Library Oakland, CA 94612 at Oakland DVD 322.42097 BLACK 510-637-0200 Archives and Reference www.oaklandlibrary.org/aamlo Library Selected Archival Collections: from artist and Black Panther's Minister of Selected Titles Available at AAMLO: Culture Emory Douglas. Beginning on March MS 191 African American Museum & Library 13, 1971, the newspapers were re-named The Black Panther party (reconsidered) / edit- at Oakland Oral History Collection The Black Panther Intercommunal News Ser- ed by Charles E. Jones vice. The African American Museum & Library at 322.42 BLACK Oakland Oral History Collection consists of 79 oral history interviews conducted in 2002- In search of the Black Panther Party : new MS 202 Commemorator Newspaper Collec- perspectives on a revolutionary movement / 2007. The interviews were initially conducted tion Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams, editors by the AAMLO Coalition, a group of volunteers 322.42 IN and supporters of the African American Muse- The Commemorator newspaper was a news- um & Library at Oakland, which interviewed paper printed in South Berkeley from 1990- Liberation, imagination, and the Black Pan- prominent and long-time Oakland residents in 2013 by the Commemoration Committee for ther Party : a new look at the Panthers and the fields of education, performing arts, poli- the Black Panther Party. The newspaper col- their legacy / edited by Kathleen Cleaver and tics and religion. lection consists of 54 issues of Commemora- George Katsiaficas tor newspaper printed from 1990-2012. Box 3 322.42 LIBERATIO Villa, Ruth 2003 Out of Oakland : Black Panther Party interna- Description: Activist and ‘mother of MS 150 Jonathan Eubanks Photograph Col- the Black Panthers’ Ruth Villa discuss- tionalism during the Cold War / Sean L. Mal- lection es her childhood in Louisiana and her loy long association with members of the The Jonathan Eubanks Photograph Collec- 322.42 MALLOY Black Panther Party in Oakland. tion includes seven photographs of Black Watch a recording of the oral history Panther Party members at a “Free Huey” The revolution has come : Black power, gen- here: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ rally held in 1969, including portraits of der, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland / findaid/ark:/13030/c87m0dcs/ prominent party members Stokely Carmi- Robyn C. Spencer chael, Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver, and 322.42 SPENCER Bobby Seale. Also included is a portrait of MS 178 Black Panther Black Community News Marcella Ford taken in the 1990s. Service Collection The Black Panther Black Community News Ser- vice Collection consists of 420 newspapers MS 195 Henry Williams Jr. Film Collection published by the Black Panther Party between 1967-1980. Each issue was between 16-28 pag- The Henry Williams Jr. Film Collection con- es and featured a range of articles and op-eds sists of 175 films and 3 reel-to-reel audi- on the activities of the party, black power, po- otapes mostly documenting the Black Pan- lice brutality, communism, and party leader- ther Party and student and union protest ship. The back of each issue featured artwork movements of the late 1960s. .
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