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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
By David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
Young Adult
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
By Bryan Shih, Yohuru Williams, Peniel E. Joseph (Introduction by)
Young Adult
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
By Sam Durant (Editor), Emory Douglas (Illustrator), Bobby Seale (Foreword by)
Young Adult
Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party
By Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, and Waldo E. Martin Jr
Young Adult
Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions
Edited by déqui kioni-sadiki and Matt Meyer
Young Adult
My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain
By Aaron Dixon, forward by Judson L. Jeffries
Young Adult