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Below is a list of some important leaders of the black power movement, followed by their most important writing (in my opinion) and if I have it a link to their archive or some other audio or video of them. If a * follows a name it means they weren't in the black power movement but the civil rights movement. If a ## follows their name it signifies that they were a socialist or communist.

Robert F. Williams ##- "Negroes with Guns" http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/robertfwilliamscd (item) http://panafrican.tv/product_info.php?products_id=173&osCsid=07ed4558b8e9813b8376eeef775c05c8 (very good video interview, click on where it says video, give it a while to buffer.

Malcolm X ## (he never officially called himself a socialist but like to say "show me a capitalist and I'll show you a racist"---http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/531/531_06_MalcolmX.shtml)- http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/malcolm-x/index.htm check out the websites at the bottom, I'm going to make a thread about Malcolm but since I haven't yet I want to tell you that the early writings and speakings of him are anti-white and refer to the white race as "the white devil" this is when he was in the Nation of Islam and when he broke from them his views changed radically.

Martin Luther King, Jr. * (one of his top advisors was a communist by the way)- http://www.martinlutherkingjrarchive.com/Home.aspx a few of his speeches are at the bottom, you can easily find more by looking them up, I won't cover him much in this forum because I don't agree with non-violence and I feel he is too often highlighted and taught as the only civil rights leader (him and Rosa Parks)

Huey P. Newton ## (here's someone you will never hear about in schools and one of my personal heroes, he'll definitly have his own thread)- http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/index.htm definitly read that page and check it out, you can find more about Huey by searching it on a search engine, there is video of him too and if you are interested buy "Revolutionary Suicide" it's a great book and worth the money. If you don't want to spend much definitley check out "The Huey P. Newton Reader" or any of his other writings (can be found on www.amazon.com)

Fred Hampton ## - http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/index.htm I'll go more in depth later on

Frederick Douglas * - http://www.nps.gov/archive/frdo/fdlife.htm and http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/ethnicstudies/historicdocs/Douglass/ (best I could find)

Mumia Abu-Jamal (Free Mumia!) ## - READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN, Mumia is honestly a genious, just look through his stuff and read it, it will highly educate you not only on the movement but socialism in general and the reasons it's needed. http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm he also wrote the best history of the Black Panthers I've ever read entitled "We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party"

I'll update this fairly regularly

True, although I don't consider them civil rights leaders

I think they stuck it to the black man more though, considering the gangs kill people wearing the wrong color on their turf, their turf is poor neighborhoods which are majority minority so to speak, so they hurt more black families and black people then white people, and there's nothing wrong with being white, just so long as you aren't the "white man".

Fredrick Douglas was also for non-violence. He also had all the appearances of a capitalist.