Book 2010

War Before

Safiya Asya Bukhari Angela Y. Davis Wonda Jones Laura Whitehorn

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Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Language: English
Published: 2010

Black panther party
African american women
Political activists
African americans, biography
Women prisoners
West virginia, biography
African americans, civil rights
Civil rights movements

The War Before traces Bukhari’s lifelong commitment as an advocate for the rights of the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to Black Panther to political prisoner, these writings provide an intimate view of a woman wrestling with the issues of her time—the troubled legacy of the Panthers, misogyny in the movement, her decision to convert to Islam, the incarceration of out spoken radicals, and the families left behind.