The late black militant Don Cox details his years in the Black Panther Party, chronicling his journey from peaceful protest to violent uprising, as well as his eventual abandonment of the movement and ensuing exile.
"Memoir of a Black Panther Party member, chronicling his early childhood in Missouri, his thoughts about American racism and the nascent Civil Rights Movement, his participation in the Black Panther Party, and his exile from the United States"--
Just Another Nigger is Don Cox’s revelatory, even incendiary account of his years in the Black Panther Party. He participated in many peaceful Bay Area civil rights protests but hungered for more militant action. His book tells the story of his work as the party’s field marshal in charge of gunrunning to planning armed attacks—tales which are told for the first time in this remarkable memoir—to his star turn raising money at the Manhattan home of Leonard Bernstein (for which he was famously mocked by Tom Wolfe in Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers), to his subsequent flight to Algeria to join Eldridge Cleaver in exile, to his decision to leave the party following his disillusionment with Huey P. Newton’s leadership. Cox would live out the rest of his life in self-imposed exile, where he began writing these unrepentant recollections in the early 1980s, enjoining his daughter to promise him that she would do everything she could to have them published—with the title he insisted upon, a nod to W. E. B. Dubois’s remark that “In my own country, for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.”
