In this episode, we speak to Professor Jakobi Williams about his book From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago and his research on black political organizing and resistance to white supremacy and capitalism in Chicago throughout the 20th century.

Suggested Readings & Resources:
Jakobi Williams - From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago
https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Ballot-Illinois-Coalition-Politics/dp/1469622106/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=jakobi+williams&qid=1553292176&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Amy Sonnie and James Tracy - Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
https://www.amazon.com/Hillbilly-Nationalists-Urban-Rebels-Black/dp/1935554662/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=Hillbilly+Nationalists%2C+Urban+Race+Rebels%2C+and+Black+Power%3A+Community+Organizing+in+Radical+Times&qid=1553292833&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Jeffrey Haas - The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Fred-Hampton-Chicago-Murdered/dp/1569767092/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=The+assassination+of+Fred+Hampton+%3A+how+the+FBI+and+the+Chicago+police+murdered+a+Black+Panther&qid=1553292441&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull

Joshua Bloom - Black against Empire: The History of Politics of the Black Panther Party
https://www.amazon.com/Black-against-Empire-Politics-Foundation/dp/0520293282/ref=sxbs_sxwds-stvp?keywords=black+panthers+chicago&pd_rd_i=0520293282&pd_rd_r=58cd0e1a-b13a-4807-91f2-e8517fade348&pd_rd_w=I4Z37&pd_rd_wg=MfSmd&pf_rd_p=5c5ea0d7-2437-4d8a-88a7-ea6f32aeac11&pf_rd_r=X0J9HNE1YYJXWNAK8MKJ&qid=1553292465&s=gateway

Robyn C. Spencer - The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Has-Come-Panther-Oakland/dp/0822362864/ref=pd_sim_14_4/145-7285454-7271234?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0822362864&pd_rd_r=0212ec40-4cef-11e9-889b-8de6206c1d4a&pd_rd_w=86PET&pd_rd_wg=LTn69&pf_rd_p=90485860-83e9-4fd9-b838-b28a9b7fda30&pf_rd_r=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN&psc=1&refRID=071FSN36JB6G6JG6NQKN

Davarian L. Baldwin - Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life
https://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-New-Negroes-Modernity-Migration/dp/0807857998/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=black+chicago&qid=1553292916&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-7
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