Books about the BPP, what they were about, how they organized, & what the US government did.
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last updated February, 2026
Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression: The Black Panther Party (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
Christian A. Davenport
Agony in New Haven: The Trial of Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins & the Black Panther Party
Donald Freed
Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party
Judson L. Jeffries
On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities across America
A Panther Is a Black Cat: An Account of the Early Years of The Black Panther Party Its Origins, Its Goals, and Its Struggle for Survival
Reginald Major
Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party
Diane Fujino
Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party
Curtis J. Austin
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party
Stephen Shames
Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Donna Murch
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars against the Black Panther Party & the American Indian Movement
Ward Churchill
Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
Suzanne Cope
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
Alondra Nelson
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Bryan Shih
Nine Lives of a Black Panther: A Story of Survival
Wayne Pharr
War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America
Huey P. Newton
The Black Panthers Speak
Philip S. Foner
My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain
Aaron Dixon
Revolutionary Suicide
To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton
The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs
Huey P. Newton Foundation
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
Bobby Seale
Power to the People: The Black Panthers Speak
Fred Hampton
The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
Robyn C. Spencer
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
David F. Walker
This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party
David Hilliard
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Kekla Magoon
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
Elaine Brown
We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Black Revolutionaries: A History of the Black Panther Party (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America)
Joe Street
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