Curtis J. Austin is an associate professor of history and codirector of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi. Elbert "Big Man" Howard was a founding member of the Black Panther Party and the editor of the party's newspaper.
"Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Austin's work is an
important contribution to the emerging literature on the history
and legacy of the Panthers." Douglas Sherry, "Journal of American
Cultures," Vol. 31, #3, September 2008 "Up Against the Wall is one
of the first scholarly monographs to take a thematic and national
approach to the history of the BPP .... promises to have a lasting
place in the burgeoning literature on the Black Panther Party."
Journal of American History, December 2007
"We desperately need good historical scholarship about the Black
Panther Party, and this strong history is a good place to start.
Austin's focus on violence is a shrewd decision." --Tim Tyson,
author of Blood Done Sign My Name and Radio Free Dixie "This book
powerfully demonstrates the centrality of violence in the
historical trajectory and our historical memory of the Party. . . .
A serious, sober, and probing contribution to the ongoing project
of historicizing and understanding the Party and its importance."
--Waldo Martin, Civil Rights in the United States: An Encyclopedia
and The Mind of Frederick Douglass
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