Two more issues of ‘Right on!’ added to Spark collection: 1972

Two more issues of Right On! have been added to the Spark online collection. Vol. 1 No. 10 and Vol. 1 No. 12 have been copied with a hand hell scanner from originals held at Amherst College.

 

Right On! was initially published by the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party after a split within the Black Panther Party. Panther leader Huey Newton expelled Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, the entire International section, the entire New York branch, Geronimo Pratt and several others from the group in early 1971.

 

The first issue of Right On! provides what it says is a telephone transcript of a conversation between Newton and E. Cleaver after the split. While personalities played a role, the political differences (perhaps oversimplified here) can be characterized as the Cleaver faction advocating armed struggle while the Newton faction wished to emphasize community service and electoral politics.

 

Kathleen Cleaver returned from exile to the U.S. to create the Revolutionary People’s Communication Network that ultimately published Right On!, Babylon and Voice of the Lumpen. Right On! replaced Babylon as the chief newspaper of the Network in 1972. Cleaver saw her role as the above-ground support for the underground armed struggle against the United States.

 

Some of the expelled New York branch of the Panthers formed the Black Liberation Army.

 

Vol. 1 No. 1 – April 3, 1971 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1971-04-03-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 2 – May 17, 1971 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1971-05-17-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 3 – August 3, 1971 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1971-08-03-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 4 – September 1, 1971 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1971-09-01-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 5 – September 15, 1971 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1971-09-15-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 6 – October 1, 1971 ca. - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1971-10-01-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 7 – November 1, 1971 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1971-11-01-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 8 – November 16, 1971 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1971-11-16-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 9 – December 4, 1971 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1971-12-04-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 10 – December 1971 - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/vol-1-...

Vol. 1 No. 11 – January 1, 1972 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1972-01-01-ri...

Vol. 1 No. 12 – February 15, 1972 - washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/vol-1-...

Vol. 2 No. 1 – February 29, 1972 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1972-02-29-ri...

Vol. 2 No. 3 – May 31, 1972 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1972-05-31-ri...

Vol. 2 No. 6 – November 1972 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1972-11-right...

Vol. 2 No. 7 – January 15, 1973 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1973-01-15-ri...

Vol. 2 No. 9 – May 1974 - washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/1974-05-right...

 

For images of Black Panther activity in the Washington, D.C. area, see flic.kr/s/aHsjBUuu3J

 

For other alternative periodicals, including the Black Panther and Babylon, see washingtonareaspark.com/contributors/periodicals/

 

Most issues are derived from the Spark collection and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Vol. No. 10 and Vol. 1 No. 12 were scanned with a handheld cell phone from an original held in the Marshall Bloom (AC 1966) Alternative Press Collection, Amherst College Archive and Special Collections Box R14.

 

 

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