Huey P. Newton

Huey P. Newton''s powerful legacy to the Black Panther movement and the civil rights struggle has long been obscured. Conservatives harp on Newton''s drug use and on the circumstances of his death in a crack-related shooting. Liberals romanticize his black revolutionary rhetoric and idealize his message.

In Huey P. Newton: The Radical Theorist, Judson L. Jeffries considers the entire arc of Newto...