One man totes an album of revolutionary songs written and recorded by Brown during her Panther days, hoping she’ll remember they met long ago. In a wheelchair sits Albert Armour, a former Panther who hasn’t seen her since Newton’s 1989 funeral. Standing in the back are former Crips and Bloods, come to seek guidance and pay their respects. They are revolutionaries, past tense and wanna-bes. On a Thursday afternoon, they pack Eso Won bookstore in Inglewood to hear her. She has spent the last three years living mostly in Paris, working to finish her book.īut in that time out of the spotlight, Brown was not forgotten. Living more like an average American than a revolutionary, she then drifted from job to job here. “It’s because when I left the party, I felt I had died.”īrown returned to Los Angeles and worked at Motown Records for two years. “People ask why I ended the book when I left the party,” she says. In 1977, Brown, 34, took her 7-year-old daughter, Ericka, and ran for her life. Brothers brutally beat a female Panther-with Newton’s blessings. Sexism in the party, reined in while Brown was in control, now seemed poised to run rampant, according to her book.
Brown gave her blessing, as long as blacks benefited from the hundreds of jobs generated by the linkage.īut not long after Newton returned, Brown’s public life ended and her private world began to crumble. A massive party effort to register black voters was instrumental in the election of Oakland’s first African-American mayor, Lionel Wilson.Īnd when political leaders wanted to ensure funds for a freeway extension that could rehabilitate downtown Oakland, they went to the Black Panther Party for support.
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Brown continued the party’s efforts to feed and provide free medical care to the poor and expanded the model Oakland Community School.
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