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The Black Power Movement

A typescript of Amiri Baraka’s essay “Marxism and the Black Community.”

A typescript of Amiri Baraka’s essay “Marxism and the Black Community.”

Citation Information: Baraka, Imamu Amiri, “Marxism and the Black Community,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/7df225f6872e9ff6ba6651bc5a1e51cf.

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Courtesy of University of Minnesota Libraries via Minnesota Digital Library.

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Item 14 of 14 in the Primary Source Set The Black Power Movement

The Black Panther Manifesto by Eldridge Cleaver, 1970.

An excerpt from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s report on Malcolm X, circa 1950-65.

A photograph of Malcolm X and other pallbearers carrying the casket at the funeral of Ronald Stokes, April 30, 1962.

A handwritten statement submitted by defendant Bobby Seale, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, in 1969.

An excerpt from the transcript of a 1988 interview with Stokely Carmichael, proponent of the Black Power Movement.

A typescript of Amiri Baraka’s essay “Marxism and the Black Community.”

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