Black History Month: The Revolutionary Minds That Molded and Led The Black Panther Party
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MadameNoire
Elaine Brown
Brown assumed the role as the first chairwoman for the party from 1974 until 1977 in the absence of Huey Newton. Under her leadership, she focused on electoral politics and community service, and also developed the Panther’s Liberation School. But she stepped from her role less than a year after Huey Newton’s return from Cuba, and soon after left the party because of the sexism and patriarchy of the party. Her book, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story, is regarded as one of the best books about the Panthers. In it, she discusses the experience of being a woman in the party and during the Black Power movement, of which she wrote, “a woman in the Black Power movement was considered, at best, irrelevant…”
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