Revolutionary Suicide

About this book

In October 1967 one year after the founding of the Black Panther Party Huey Newton was involved in a shooting during which an Oakland police officer was killed. Newton spent three years in prison before being released and having his charges dismissed and his jailing brought cries of "Free Huey" from supporters around the world. This engrossing and well-written autobiography recounts the forming of a revolutionary and shows how the degrading and psychologically destructive penal system forged Newtons already growing spirit. When Newton was a child his father instilled in him a sense of dignity and pride; as an adolescent he was torn between religious principles and life as a hustler; as a young man he founded the radical Black Panther Party with Bobby Seale and finally in solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail he reached deep within himself to find the strength to face adversity; and even death without fear.