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Mary Frances Phillips

Mary Frances Phillips
Mary Frances Phillips is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins.


How Ericka Huggins and the Black Panther Party Attempted to Liberate Black Women in America

Mary Frances Phillips on John Huggins, Angela Y. Davis, and the Complex History of an Oft-Misunderstood Political Movement
January 10, 2025  By Mary Frances Phillips
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