The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping the Faith in Prison, and Fighting for Those Left Behind

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In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for promoting the organization’s newspaper on a Harlem street corner. The young pre-med student felt compelled to intervene in defense of the Panther’s First Amendment right; she ended up handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police car.

The War Before traces Bukhari’s lifelong commitment as an recommend for the rights of the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to Black Panther to political prisoner, these writings supply an intimate view of a lady wrestling with the problems of her time—the troubled legacy of the Panthers, misogyny within the movement, her decision to convert to Islam, the incarceration of out spoken radicals, and the families left in the back of. Her account unfolds with immediacy and keenness, showing how the struggles of social justice movements have lead the way for the progress of as of late.
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