Comrade Sisters, Women of the Black Panther Party

Title: Comrade Sisters, Women of the Black Panther Party

Photographer(s): Stephen Shames

Writer(s): Ericka Hugging, Stephen Shames

Designer(s): Anna Rieger

Publisher(s): ACC Art Books, Suffolk, England

Year: 2022

Print run:

Language(s): English

Pages: 192

Size: 24 x 28 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Edition:

Print: Printed in Belgium

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: U.S.A.,1970-2020

ISBN: 9781788841757

https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/comrade-sisters/

The book combines photos by Stephen Shames, who at the time was a 20-year-old college student at Berkeley. With the complete trust of the Black Panther Party, Shames took intimate, behind-the-scenes photographs that fully portrayed Party members’ lives. This marks his third photo book about the Black Panthers and includes many never before published images.

Ericka Huggins, an early Party member and leader along with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, has written a moving text, sharing what drew so many women to the Party and focusing on their monumental work on behalf of the most vulnerable citizens. Most importantly, the book includes contributions from over 50 former women members – some well-known, others not – who vividly recall their personal experiences from that time. Other texts include a foreword by Angela Davis and an afterword by Alicia Garza.