Black Panther Party Research Paper
“Media reports have the potential to be useful historical records for historians, but they are not always objective accounts of events. How have recent historians used other kinds of historical sources to unpack the bias within media coverage of the Black Panther Party?”
The development of the Black Panther Party caused controversy from the 1960’s onwards throughout America due to the negative behaviours with which the Party were most commonly associated with. The Party have previously been recorded throughout history as violent gangs working against Government agencies such as the Federal Investigations unit and the Central Intelligence Association. While to some extent there are truthful aspects to this depiction, such a critique is largely …show more content…
Depending on the physical location of an area, a series of events may have been portrayed differently to the community which they were representative of. The media, for the most part, positioned the wider community to see the Party in a purely negative and violent way instead of highlighting the conflict which was most apparent. For historians at the time these primary sources played a vital role in piecing together the history of the Black Panther Party. However, as societal perspectives have developed and shifted so to have the way in which historians now view past historical sources and the way in which they approach the investigations into the possible histories recorded about the …show more content…
Thomson, Alistair. "Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History": Journal of American History. 1998. Page 592.
[ 22 ]. Thomson, Alistair. "Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History": Journal of American History. 1998. Page 592.
[ 23 ]. Thomson, Alistair. "Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History": Journal of American History. 1998. Page 584.
[ 24 ]. Thomson, Alistair. "Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History": Journal of American History. 1998. Page 592.
[ 25 ]. Jeffries, Judson. L. On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities Across America. University Press of Mississippi. 2010. Page 9-11.
[ 26 ]. Alkebulan, Paul. "Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party". University of Alabama Press. 2007. Page 11 -13.
[ 27 ]. Jeffries, Judson. L. On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities Across America. University Press of Mississippi. 2010. Page12-15.
[ 28 ]. Boykoff, Jules. Gies, Martha. "We 're going to Defend Ourselves": The Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party and the Local Media Response. The Oregon Historical Quarterly. Vol 111. Iss 3. 2010. Page.
The development of the Black Panther Party caused controversy from the 1960’s onwards throughout America due to the negative behaviours with which the Party were most commonly associated with. The Party have previously been recorded throughout history as violent gangs working against Government agencies such as the Federal Investigations unit and the Central Intelligence Association. While to some extent there are truthful aspects to this depiction, such a critique is largely …show more content…
Depending on the physical location of an area, a series of events may have been portrayed differently to the community which they were representative of. The media, for the most part, positioned the wider community to see the Party in a purely negative and violent way instead of highlighting the conflict which was most apparent. For historians at the time these primary sources played a vital role in piecing together the history of the Black Panther Party. However, as societal perspectives have developed and shifted so to have the way in which historians now view past historical sources and the way in which they approach the investigations into the possible histories recorded about the …show more content…
Thomson, Alistair. "Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History": Journal of American History. 1998. Page 592.
[ 22 ]. Thomson, Alistair. "Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History": Journal of American History. 1998. Page 592.
[ 23 ]. Thomson, Alistair. "Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History": Journal of American History. 1998. Page 584.
[ 24 ]. Thomson, Alistair. "Fifty Years On: An International Perspective on Oral History": Journal of American History. 1998. Page 592.
[ 25 ]. Jeffries, Judson. L. On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities Across America. University Press of Mississippi. 2010. Page 9-11.
[ 26 ]. Alkebulan, Paul. "Survival Pending Revolution: The History of the Black Panther Party". University of Alabama Press. 2007. Page 11 -13.
[ 27 ]. Jeffries, Judson. L. On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities Across America. University Press of Mississippi. 2010. Page12-15.
[ 28 ]. Boykoff, Jules. Gies, Martha. "We 're going to Defend Ourselves": The Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party and the Local Media Response. The Oregon Historical Quarterly. Vol 111. Iss 3. 2010. Page.