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"Jesus Wept, Peter Slept, John Fell Out the Back Door Step"

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Title

"Jesus Wept, Peter Slept, John Fell Out the Back Door Step"

Subject

Black Panther Party

Description

This article includes a poem about Jesus meeting a member of the Black Panther Party (Afeni Shakur) and being turned on to the revolution.

Creator

Black Panther Party (Afeni Shakur)

Source

Roz Payne

Publisher

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date

July 4, 1970

Format

newsprint

Type

article

Original Format

paper

Collection

Leaflets, Flyers, Broadsides and Article Reprints

Tags

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Citation

Black Panther Party (Afeni Shakur), “"Jesus Wept, Peter Slept, John Fell Out the Back Door Step",” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed April 28, 2025, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/488.