{"id":1917,"date":"1999-01-01T10:49:15","date_gmt":"1999-01-01T16:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2014-05-22T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T20:01:57","slug":"book-amerikastudien-american-studies-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/book-amerikastudien-american-studies-german\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Amerikastudien \/ American Studies (German)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Documents about Larry Pinkney contained in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton at Stanford University, CA, were referred to in\u00a0<em>Americastudien \/ American Studies (<\/em>the official\u00a0journal of the German Association for American Studies), Vol. 44, No. 2, 1999, Page 234 (from the Chapter entitled <em>&#8220;Picking up the gun&#8221;: Die Black Panther Party zwischen gewaltsamer Revolution und sozialer Reform\/The Black Panther Party between violent revolution and social reform, 1966-1984 (pp. 223-254)<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Norbert Finzsch,\u00a0Published by Universtit\u00e4tsverlag WINTER Gmbh (Heidelberg, Germany),\u00a0ISSN: 03402827<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from Page 234:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Diese Beziehungen zwischen organisierter Politik und der BPP waren aber keineswegs nur eine marriage de convenance: Der Ton der teilweise sehr pers\u00f6nlichen Korrepondenz zwischen Mitgliedern des schwarzen politischen Establishments und Newton is doch sehr freundschaftlich, ja beinahe intim. Dies r\u00fchrt daher, da\u00df ehemalige Mitglieder der BPP inzwischen den Marsch durch die Institutionen angetreten hatten und politisch zu Macht gekommen waren. <sup>34<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sub><sup>34<\/sup> Der Vorsitzender des Black Caucus der Stadt San Francisco, Larry Pinkney, war 1967 Section Leader der Partei in Los Angeles gewesen. 1968 hatte er sich als Koordinator der Southern Christian Leadership Conference, also der Gruppierung Martin Luther Kings, bet\u00e4tigt. 1972 engagierte er sich als Treasurer im Pr\u00e4sidentschaftwahlkampf von Shirley Chisholm, der ersten schwarzen Frau, die 1968 ins Repr\u00e4sentantenhaus gew\u00e4hl worden war (Brief Larry Pinkneys an Newton vom 11.11.1972 und beiliegendes C.V. [Newton Foundation, Papers Series 2, box 1, folder 9]).<\/sub><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<em>is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0887392865\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=blackcommenta-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=0887392865\" target=\"_blank\">Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.struggle-and-win.net\/13201\/43480.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents about Larry Pinkney contained in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton at Stanford University, CA, were referred to in\u00a0Americastudien \/ American Studies (the official\u00a0journal of the German Association for American Studies), Vol. 44, No. 2, 1999, Page 234 (from the Chapter entitled &#8220;Picking up the gun&#8221;: Die Black Panther Party zwischen gewaltsamer Revolution [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,28,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}