“How does a couple of African-Americans without stories come to hijack a plane?”


“Panthers and Pirates.  African-Americans between class struggle and Black Power”, by Sylvain Pattieu.

Panthers and Pirates. African-Americans between class struggle and Black Power is the true and unknown story of Melvin and Jean McNair, two African-Americans from North Carolina who, in 1973, take the radical decision to hijack a plane. A dive into the United States of the 1960s and 1970s, in particular the limits of the progress of the civil rights movement, but also in the militancy of this end of the century, in the United States, in Algiers and in Paris. The historian Sylvain Pattieu, lecturer in history at the University of Paris 8, talks about his book at the microphone of RFI.

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