In the Shadow of the Gun: The Black Panther Party, the Ninth Amendment and Discourses of Self-Defense
Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Jama Lazerow & Yohuru Williams eds., 2006)
Posted: 14 Dec 2020
Date Written: 2006
Abstract
In this Book Chapter, the Author evaluates the legal basis of the revolutionary struggle of the Black Panthers, a revolutionary black nationalist party, and explains how they utilized and critiqued the language of the Constitution and the Ninth Amendment, including in relationship to self-defense.
Keywords: Black Panthers, Black Panther Party, civil rights, radical ideology, black nationalist party, Constitutional law, Ninth Amendment, self-defense
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Baldwin, Bridgette, In the Shadow of the Gun: The Black Panther Party, the Ninth Amendment and Discourses of Self-Defense (2006). Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Jama Lazerow & Yohuru Williams eds., 2006), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3713164
Bridgette Baldwin (Contact Author)
Western New England University School of Law ( email )
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Springfield, MA 01119
United States
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