A Personal Account 
 
James Forman. 
 
The Macmillan Company: 1972. First printing. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Tears along the edges and folds of the jacket. Back cover of the jacket has smudges. Inside of jacket has trace foxing. Boards have rubbing and they are slighlty splayed. There are three exposing tears on the bottom of the boards, two of which are on the corners. Smudges on the textblock and trace foxing on the endpapers. Five of the pages have folds. A few have notes in the margins and less than that have underlining. 568 pages. Good. 
 
Only James Forman, the former Minister of Education in the Black Panther Party, could have written this book. For both political analysis and the intrigue of history's drama it's fascinating. Forman doesn't hold back. He gives his opinions about Civil Rights leaders he knew, why certain revolutionary programs worked and others didn't, and a detailed account of the structure of the Black Panther Party. 
 
"Many of us have changed the organizational form of our struggle, but the content of fighting injustice wherever we are remains the same."