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More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiographywhich was first published in 1969, went through seven printings and has long been unavailablechronicles the making of a revolutionary. It is much more than a personal history, however; it is a call to arms, an urgent message to the black community to be the vanguard force in the struggle of oppressed people. Forthright, sardonic, and shocking, this bookis not onlyilluminating and dynamic but alsoa vitally important document that is essential to understanding the upheavals of the late 1960s. University of Massachusetts professor Ekwueme Michael Thelwell has updated this edition, covering Browns decades of harassment by law enforcement agencies, his extraordinary transformation into an important Muslim leader, and his sensational trial.