Die Nigger Die!

A Political Autobiography

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by H. Rap Brown,

Foreword by Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

Lawrence Hill Books

Due/Published April 2002, 160 pages, paper

ISBN 1556524528

(H. Rap Brown has been known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin for quite a long time now, but when first published, this book was published under his former name.)

More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization SNCC, came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. Die Nigger Die!--which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings, and has long been unavailable--tells the story of the making of a revolutionary. But it is much more than a personal history--it is a call to arms, an urgent message to the black community to be the vanguard force in the struggle of oppressed people. Forthright, sardonic, and shocking, Die Nigger Die! is not only an illuminating and dynamic reading experience, but a vitally important document that is essential to understanding the upheavals of the late 1960s. University of Massachusetts professor Ekwueme Michael Thelwell has updated this edition, covering Brown's decades of harrassment by law enforcement agencies, his extraordinary transformation into an important Muslim leader, and his sensational trial.