All Power to the People: The Story of the Black Panther Party.

San Francisco: Peoples Press, (1970). 10 x 7-1/2 inches. 45,[3]pp + inside covers. Stapled yellow wrappers printed in black, red, blue and purple. Illustrated throughout in b&w with original drawings by Frank Cieciorka and reproductions from the Black Panther Party newspaper. Light wear and soiling to wrappers; light bumping to corner and spine foot. Very Good. A primer of the aims, ideology, and state-sponsored repression of the Black Panther Party, "written by a white person to other whites. ... We've got a lot to learn and not much time to learn it" (p.1). The contents include sections on the BPP's patrolling of the police, Huey Newton, the 10-Point Program, using both armed self-defense and a knowledge of the law, the "Free Huey!" campaign, "Why the Panthers Don't Hate Whites," "Serve the People," murders and frameups, and the government's actions against the BPP and why. Terry, or Terrence, Cannon was the founder and editor of The Movement, a newspaper created to keep SNCC members on the West Coast informed about events taking place in the South; he left the paper when he was tried for anti-draft actions as one of the Oakland 7. Uncommon in commerce.