Item #000011987 Panthermania; The Clash of Black Against Black in One American City. Gail Sheehy.

Panthermania; The Clash of Black Against Black in One American City

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [3], 1-125, [1] pp. Quarter green cloth over black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Green endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Sheehy's investigative reporting into the murder of Alex Rackley. Rackley's killing led to negative publicity for both the FBI and the Black Panthers. Sheehy's book details the history of the interactions between the police, the FBI, and the Black Panther Party up to the murder of Rackley. She and a Black photographer, David Parks, spent one summer in New Haven investigating the events leading up to the Rackley murder and they investigated the attitudes of the local Black community towards the Black Panthers. Near Fine / very near Fine. Item #000011987

A touch of foxing to the top textblock.

Price: $75.00

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