The Portland Black Panthers Book by Lucas N. N. Burke and Judson L. Jeffries

Please place orders of books separate from other products for the MEDIA MAIL shipping option. You can order multiple books in one order and get this rate, but you can not include other types of products.  In an effort to make this book available to more people, if you can not afford the normal cover price, you can use the coupon code ABOLISH at check out for 40% off this book (bringing it to about what we paid for it with the cost of shipping to us). Portland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” In early recognition of such disparate realities, a group of African American activists in the 1960s formed a local branch of the Black Panther Party in the city’s Albina District to rally their community and be heard by city leaders. And as Lucas Burke and Judson Jeffries reveal, the Portland branch was quite different from the more famous—and infamous—