Overview
This directory brings together biographies of individuals associated with the Black Panther Party and the broader Black Power movement. The collection includes national and local leaders, rank-and-file organizers, political prisoners, artists, educators, and other figures whose lives intersected with the Panthers' community programs, revolutionary politics, self-defense philosophy, internal conflicts, state repression, and long-term historical legacy.
Biographies
- Aaron Dixon
- Afeni Shakur
- Angela Davis
- Assata Shakur
- Barbara Easley Cox
- Bobby Hutton
- Bobby Seale
- Bunchy Carter
- Chaka Khan
- Dhoruba Bin Wahad
- Elaine Brown
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Emory Douglas
- Ericka Huggins
- Fred Hampton
- George Jackson
- Geronimo Pratt
- Huey P. Newton
- Joan Tarika Lewis
- John Huggins
- Kathleen Cleaver
- Lynn French
- Mark Clark
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Paul Coates
- Stokely Carmichael