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"At first glance, Geniece's story sounds like that of a typical young woman: she goes to college, has romantic entanglements, builds meaningful friendships, and juggles her schedule with a part-time job. However, she does all of these things in 1960s San Francisco while becoming a militant member of the Black Panther movement. When Huey Newton is jailed in October 1967 and the Panthers explode nationwide, Geniece enters the organization's dark and dangerous world of guns, FBI agents, freewheeling sex on demand, quasi-legal adventures, police repression, and fatal shoot-outs--all while…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2013Viking · 306 pages · 9780670026586
Black Panther PartyFictionAfrican American womenHistoryFICTION / African American / Urban LifeFICTION / Coming of AgeFICTION / Contemporary WomenFiction, coming of age







