# Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People - Hardcover

by **Kekla Magoon** (Author)

****_A National Book Award Finalist_**  
**_A Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book_**  
_**A Michael L. Printz Honor Book**  
**A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book**_  
**With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers--as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community.**  
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In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members--mostly women--and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens.

_Revolution in Our Time_ puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Kekla Magoon's eye-opening work invites a new generation of readers grappling with injustices in the United States to learn from the Panthers' history and courage, inspiring them to take their own place in the ongoing fight for justice.

### Author Biography

**Kekla Magoon's** young adult novel _The Rock and the River_, which won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award, was the first mainstream novel for young people to feature the Black Panther Party. She is the Margaret A. Edwards Award-winning author of more than a dozen books for young readers, including _Fire in the Streets_ and _How It Went Down_. She is also the coauthor, with Ilyasah Shabazz, of _X: A Novel_, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and received an NAACP Image Award and a Coretta Scott King Honor. Kekla Magoon grew up in Indiana and now lives in Vermont, where she serves on the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 10.1 x 7.6 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** November 08, 2021

**Award:** National Book Awards (2021)

**Award:** Coretta Scott King Award (2022)

**Award:** Michael L. Printz Award (2022)

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

**Interest Level:** Middle Grades, 4-8

**Reading Level:** 9.2

**Point Value:** 14

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