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Article: A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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Elaine Brown. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1994. 463 pp. $14.95.
Huey Newton's of act Elaine Brown to succeed him as leader of the Black Panther Party in 1974 was historic. Whatever his self-serving motives might have been, his act put a black woman at the helm of the most militant, predominantly male organization in America at the time. Most of us outside the Black Panther Party and outside of Oakland, California, did not know about Elaine Brown's role because the national media limited its coverage to the activities and publications of Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver. Until now, very few ...