BOOKS

“The definitive book on the Newton trial.”
– Lowell Jensen, prosecutor

The companion book to the film. Compares the explosive state of American race relations in 1968 to race relations today with insights from key participants and observers of the internationally-watched Oakland, California death-penalty trial that launched the Black Panther Party and transformed the American jury “of one’s peers.”

The book that the film is based on. A history of the American 20th Century that compares the Newton trial to other headline trials of the century between the years 1901 and 2000. Through rigorous detail and analysis, the author asserts that the Newton murder trial, following a shootout with two Oakland policemen—where the accused revolutionary put America itself on trial for 400 years of racism—should head the list of trials of the century.

The life and times of movement lawyer and Newton trial co-counsel Fay Stender. An inside look at this unsung hero and her circle of Bay Area activists who boldly challenged the status quo to push for "liberty and justice for all" during the McCarthy and free speech eras, the rise of Black power, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the women's movement.