| New Views of the Black Panthers
Paint Shades of Gray
Monaghan, Peter
Chronicles of Higher Education,
March 2,2007, v53 #26, ppA12-A17
What role does the Black Panthers and the black power
movement play in the overall civil rights movement? Some historians
are challenging the perceived detriment of black activists to the
broader civil-rights movement. Violence undoubtedly permeated the
movement but researchers are showing that it had roots and objectives.
Scholars also note that a far different image of the Panthers emerges
from their community projects (such as their free breakfasts for
inner-city children, free clinics, food giveaways in schools, voter-registration
drives, community patrols and monitoring of police behavior (with
rifles, for a brief time), and even ambulance services). They also
assert that, over the long haul, black power has effected just as
much change as less controversial forms of civil-rights protest.
Peter Monaghan is a staff writer for the Chronicle of Higher
Education.
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