Black Panther in Exile: The Pete O'Neal Story

The story of an influential Black Panther member who has lived in exile in Africa for 55 years

Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for General Nonfiction

In the tumultuous year after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, 29-year-old Pete O'Neal became inspired by reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X and founded the Kansas City branch of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The same year, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declared the BPP was the "greatest threat to the internal security of the country...