The Black Panthers in Portland

PORTLAND'S BLACK PANTHERS, the fourth in the Dill Pickle Club's 10part Oregon History Comics series, briefly recounts the highpoints in the local organization's revolutionary activism - the founding of the Portland chapter, police harassment and court cases, and the breakfast program and free clinics. Furthermore, there's been very little written about the local chapter of the Black Panther Party, in any format. I believe the bibliography included in this booklet - listing three articles, two books, two films, and some online resources - is practically exhaustive. The writer, [Sarah Mirk], overcame this obstacle partly by examining the initial newspaper reporting on the Panthers, and, more notably, by interviewing some of the people responsible for the activities described - chiefly Panther leaders like Kent Ford and Percy Hampton, but also a pair of nurses from the Party's free clinic.