''Die Nigger Die!'' is a 1969 political

autobiography An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life. It is a form of biography. Definition The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English p ...

by the American political activist

H. Rap Brown Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943), formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is a civil rights activist, black separatist, and convicted murderer who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...

(now known as Jamil Abdullah al-Amin). The book was first released in the United States in 1969 (by

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) and then in the United Kingdom in 1970 (by

Allison & Busby Allison & Busby (A & B) is a publishing house based in London established by Clive Allison and Margaret Busby in 1967. The company has built up a reputation as a leading independent publisher. Background Launching as a publishing company in Ma ...

). Brown describes his experiences as a young black

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activist and how they shaped his opinions of white America. He expresses his opinions on what he believes

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need to do to break free from white oppression. As a chairman of the

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced ) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segreg ...

and from 1968 a member of the

Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party (BPP), originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, Cali ...

, he was heavily involved with organizations that espoused a Black Power ideology. After the subsequent conviction of Brown for murder in March 2002, the book was reprinted by Lawrence Hill Press with a foreword by

Ekwueme Michael Thelwell Ekwueme Michael Thelwell (born Michael Miles Thelwell; 25 July 1939) is a Jamaican novelist, essayist, professor and civil rights activist. He was in 1970 founding chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massac ...

References

1969 non-fiction books African-American autobiographies Dial Press books Allison and Busby books Political autobiographies {{US-poli-bio-book-stub .