"Black Revolutionaries is an accessible yet rigorously argued history of the Black Panther Party, one of the emblematic organizations of the 1960s. It highlights the complexity of the BPP's history through three key themes: the BPP's intellectual history, its political and social activism, and the persecution its members endured. Together, these themes confirm the BPP's importance for understanding Black America's response to white oppression in the 1960s and 1970s. Based on a wealth of archival material, it reveals the enduring importance of leftist political philosophy to 1960s and 1970s radicalism, and how BPP helps us understand more deeply the role of public space and public protest in the 1960s, the transformation of political activism in the post-civil rights era, the psychological and organizational impact of FBI surveillance, police repression, and prison on its victims, and particularly that the latter both helped to shape and destroy the BPP. Most significant, it demonstrates that an understanding of African American grassroots politics and protest, racial injustice, and police brutality in the post-civil rights era is only comprehensible through engagement with the BPP's history. This is the definitive study of the BPP for students, academics, and the general reader"--