Full name: A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

Author: Elaine Brown Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Feminism, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385471077 0385471076

Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent time in American history, this is the story of a black woman's battle to define herself. Similar books: Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton Here I Stand by Paul Robeson Having Our Say by Sarah L. Delany Assata by Assata Shakur Nigger by Dick Gregory Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams Colored People by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall Black Ice by Lorene Cary Bone Black by Bell Hooks Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks Writing a Woman's Life by Carolyn G. Heilbrun My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst Vindication by Lyndall Gordon