Gabriella’s Reviews > Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California > Status Update

“[Ericka] Huggins’s case became a turning point for women in the Party, because her incarceration and physical abuse at the hands of authorities showed that female Panthers faced the same brutal state repression as their male counterparts.”

“As a ‘turn-around place’ for low-income black students, Merritt [College] represented a social truth much closer to the immediate realities of growing black urban populations in the 1960s.”