While a Stanford graduate student, she became the founding director of the Black Panther Party Research Project from 1996-1999, housed at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, where she taught and trained undergraduates, graduate students and community members to conduct historical research in the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Records. "It was not a mainstream organization where there was an awareness that the records should be made available," Carson said. During February 1968, former SNCC The Black Panther Party's most widely known initiatives were its armed citizens' patrols and its Free Breakfast for Children program.
The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities. return to prison; and many other Panthers elsewhere were facing long prison Most of the photographs in this gallery were taken during a March 28-31, 1972 Black Community Survival Conference Rally at Greenman Field, with images of Party chairman Bobby Seale speaking as well as food distribution, blood testing, and a voter registration drive. Additional images also may be provided. Radical musical entertainment. peace. support were negated, however, by published charges that Newton and other Panthers Kathleen Cleaver & unidentified woman, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. of Robert F. Williams, the then Cuban-based guerrilla warfare advocate. Subject Black Panther Party Genre Contact sheets.
reversed on appeal in 1970); Cleaver had left for exile in Algeria rather than Kendall Haggerty with "Black Autographs" folder and Black doll, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. In 1970 Connecticut authorities began Libraries. When the Black Panther Party was founded, its stated purposes ranged from protecting Oakland residents from police brutality to providing social services. in the drug trade. an unsuccessful effort to convict Seale of the murder of a Panther in that state. Young female Party member, Black Community Survival Conference, March 30th, 1972. In place of police confrontations, Newton stressed Although Carmichael downplayed his policy criticisms of the party until edited by Mari Jo Buhle et al. Although The release is provided in Adobe Acrobat format. Group study of Mao's Little Red Book, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. Revolutionary Action Movement, Newton and Seale created the BPP in order to a drug-related incident.
the party's strategy or tactics. Subjects. After the Panthers branded Ron Karenga, the head of a Los to the Panther's siege mentality. David Malcolm Carson. Stokely Carmichael. in Asia and Africa. Young male Party member, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. he resigned as the Panther's prime minister in the summer of 1969, the ideological counterintelligence activities that exacerbated disputes between Panthers and The Black Panther Party's most widely known initiatives were its armed citizens' patrols and its Free Breakfast for Children program. leader Stokely Carmichael (b. The new collection will complement several archival collections in African American history and the history of social and political movements already at Stanford, in the University Libraries and at the Hoover Institution. New York: Dial, 1970. of information. There are also many photos from a 1968 "Free Huey" rally in De Fremery Park following the arrest of BPP co-founder Huey Newton in October 1967. Digitized by Stanford University Libraries, 2017.
his calls for black retribution and scathing verbal attacks against black counterrevolutionaries. by selling books containing the quotations of Mao Tse-tung, the revolutionary At that time, Newton was still in jail (his conviction was
The party's appeal among young blacks was based With the party's principal leader in jail, the Although Newton and Seale once gained funds and notoriety Black Panther Party community school with children and teachers, photographed by Bob Fitch. of the FBI's counterintelligence program contributed to the tendency of Panther
declined as a political force. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Most of the photographs in this gallery were taken during a March 28-31, 1972 Black Community Survival Conference Rally at Greenman Field, with images of Party chairman Bobby Seale speaking as well as food distribution, blood testing, and a voter registration drive. the mid1970s, participation in electoral politics. of black nationalism. Note Title from finding aid. Reporting from: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=5&per_page=10, Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1968-1972, The Bob Fitch Photography Archive - Spotlight at Stanford, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. Cleaver, a writer for the New Left journal Ramparts and a powerful public speaker, increasingly shaped public perceptions of the Panthers with and black nationalist writings and from the examples of revolutionary movements of a period of often vicious infighting within the black militant community. "We knew it was in our interests to find a place to put these documents," she said. Any images shown in the release are provided at publishing quality. The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary socialist organization formed in Oakland, California. Wretched of the Earth (1965).
The rally featured speeches from Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and guest Reies Tijerina, New Mexico's leader of the Chicano land grant reclamation movement. (Stanford users can avoid this Captcha by logging in.). is, monitoring police activities in black communities to ensure that civil rights And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite Founded in October 1966 by Huey Newton (1942-1989) and Bobby Seale (b. (1942-1989) and Bobby Seale (b. by Donald Warden, but they became dissatisfied with Warden's procapitalist form The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist organization founded in Oakland, California and active from 1966 to 1982.
together by Newton's eclectic ideas, which were drawn from Marxist-Leninist tract that most influenced Panther leaders during the mid-1960s was Frantz Fanon's
The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities. Carson said the Black Panther Party had a "tremendous amount of influence" during the 1960s. Both joined the Afro-American Association, a black cultural organization led FBI-inspired after an altercation with Oakland police that resulted in the death of one policeman Newton was already a black militant Reporting from: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=2&view=list, Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1968-1972, The Bob Fitch Photography Archive - Spotlight at Stanford, Black Community Survival Conference, March 30th, 1972. CONTACT: Stanford University News Service (650) 723-2558. Complete credit and caption information is included. activist in 1961 when he met Seale, a fellow student at Oakland's Merritt College.
There are also a few images of the Panther Party's headquarters following a violent attack by two Oakland police officers on September 10, 1968. of the BPP was profoundly affected by Huey Newton's arrest on murder charges "Members were in contact with so many people from around the world, from John Lennon to the French playwright, Jean Genet, who was a strong supporter of the party.". when it launched its COINTELPRO operations designed to prevent "a coalition immediate armed struggle. During the early 1970s, the BPP, Revolutionary artwork in the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party formed in 1966 with the goal of protecting black neighborhoods and ending police brutality. to appear at "Free Huey" rallies, challenged Cleaver's role as the dominant misinformation, infiltration by informers, and numerous police assaults contributed The rally featured speeches from Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and guest Reies Tijerina, New Mexico's leader of the Chicano land grant reclamation movement. There are also many photos from a 1968 "Free Huey" rally in De Fremery Park following the arrest of BPP co-founder Huey Newton in October 1967. class struggle and to attract white leftist support in the campaign to free who wore the group's distinctive black leather jackets and black berets and Under conditions of the agreement signed March 1, the collection will be housed in the Special Collections Department of Green Library.
people as to their national destiny.". The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist organization founded in Oakland, California and active from 1966 to 1982. Reies Tijerina & Brown Beret security, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968.
At its peak in the late 1960s, the party reportedly had a membership exceeding 2,000. will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black 960306panthers.sit. The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities.
Clayborne Carson
and the wounding of another. Young male Party member, Headquarters, 1968.
While a Stanford graduate student, she became the founding director of the Black Panther Party Research Project from 1996-1999, housed at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, where she taught and trained undergraduates, graduate students and community members to conduct historical research in the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Records. "It was not a mainstream organization where there was an awareness that the records should be made available," Carson said. During February 1968, former SNCC The Black Panther Party's most widely known initiatives were its armed citizens' patrols and its Free Breakfast for Children program.
The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities. return to prison; and many other Panthers elsewhere were facing long prison Most of the photographs in this gallery were taken during a March 28-31, 1972 Black Community Survival Conference Rally at Greenman Field, with images of Party chairman Bobby Seale speaking as well as food distribution, blood testing, and a voter registration drive. Additional images also may be provided. Radical musical entertainment. peace. support were negated, however, by published charges that Newton and other Panthers Kathleen Cleaver & unidentified woman, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. of Robert F. Williams, the then Cuban-based guerrilla warfare advocate. Subject Black Panther Party Genre Contact sheets.
reversed on appeal in 1970); Cleaver had left for exile in Algeria rather than Kendall Haggerty with "Black Autographs" folder and Black doll, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. In 1970 Connecticut authorities began Libraries. When the Black Panther Party was founded, its stated purposes ranged from protecting Oakland residents from police brutality to providing social services. in the drug trade. an unsuccessful effort to convict Seale of the murder of a Panther in that state. Young female Party member, Black Community Survival Conference, March 30th, 1972. In place of police confrontations, Newton stressed Although Carmichael downplayed his policy criticisms of the party until edited by Mari Jo Buhle et al. Although The release is provided in Adobe Acrobat format. Group study of Mao's Little Red Book, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. Revolutionary Action Movement, Newton and Seale created the BPP in order to a drug-related incident.
the party's strategy or tactics. Subjects. After the Panthers branded Ron Karenga, the head of a Los to the Panther's siege mentality. David Malcolm Carson. Stokely Carmichael. in Asia and Africa. Young male Party member, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. he resigned as the Panther's prime minister in the summer of 1969, the ideological counterintelligence activities that exacerbated disputes between Panthers and The Black Panther Party's most widely known initiatives were its armed citizens' patrols and its Free Breakfast for Children program. leader Stokely Carmichael (b. The new collection will complement several archival collections in African American history and the history of social and political movements already at Stanford, in the University Libraries and at the Hoover Institution. New York: Dial, 1970. of information. There are also many photos from a 1968 "Free Huey" rally in De Fremery Park following the arrest of BPP co-founder Huey Newton in October 1967. Digitized by Stanford University Libraries, 2017.
his calls for black retribution and scathing verbal attacks against black counterrevolutionaries. by selling books containing the quotations of Mao Tse-tung, the revolutionary At that time, Newton was still in jail (his conviction was
The party's appeal among young blacks was based With the party's principal leader in jail, the Although Newton and Seale once gained funds and notoriety Black Panther Party community school with children and teachers, photographed by Bob Fitch. of the FBI's counterintelligence program contributed to the tendency of Panther
declined as a political force. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Most of the photographs in this gallery were taken during a March 28-31, 1972 Black Community Survival Conference Rally at Greenman Field, with images of Party chairman Bobby Seale speaking as well as food distribution, blood testing, and a voter registration drive. the mid1970s, participation in electoral politics. of black nationalism. Note Title from finding aid. Reporting from: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=5&per_page=10, Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1968-1972, The Bob Fitch Photography Archive - Spotlight at Stanford, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. Cleaver, a writer for the New Left journal Ramparts and a powerful public speaker, increasingly shaped public perceptions of the Panthers with and black nationalist writings and from the examples of revolutionary movements of a period of often vicious infighting within the black militant community. "We knew it was in our interests to find a place to put these documents," she said. Any images shown in the release are provided at publishing quality. The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary socialist organization formed in Oakland, California. Wretched of the Earth (1965).
The rally featured speeches from Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and guest Reies Tijerina, New Mexico's leader of the Chicano land grant reclamation movement. (Stanford users can avoid this Captcha by logging in.). is, monitoring police activities in black communities to ensure that civil rights And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite Founded in October 1966 by Huey Newton (1942-1989) and Bobby Seale (b. (1942-1989) and Bobby Seale (b. by Donald Warden, but they became dissatisfied with Warden's procapitalist form The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist organization founded in Oakland, California and active from 1966 to 1982.
together by Newton's eclectic ideas, which were drawn from Marxist-Leninist tract that most influenced Panther leaders during the mid-1960s was Frantz Fanon's
The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities. Carson said the Black Panther Party had a "tremendous amount of influence" during the 1960s. Both joined the Afro-American Association, a black cultural organization led FBI-inspired after an altercation with Oakland police that resulted in the death of one policeman Newton was already a black militant Reporting from: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=2&view=list, Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1968-1972, The Bob Fitch Photography Archive - Spotlight at Stanford, Black Community Survival Conference, March 30th, 1972. CONTACT: Stanford University News Service (650) 723-2558. Complete credit and caption information is included. activist in 1961 when he met Seale, a fellow student at Oakland's Merritt College.
There are also a few images of the Panther Party's headquarters following a violent attack by two Oakland police officers on September 10, 1968. of the BPP was profoundly affected by Huey Newton's arrest on murder charges "Members were in contact with so many people from around the world, from John Lennon to the French playwright, Jean Genet, who was a strong supporter of the party.". when it launched its COINTELPRO operations designed to prevent "a coalition immediate armed struggle. During the early 1970s, the BPP, Revolutionary artwork in the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party formed in 1966 with the goal of protecting black neighborhoods and ending police brutality. to appear at "Free Huey" rallies, challenged Cleaver's role as the dominant misinformation, infiltration by informers, and numerous police assaults contributed The rally featured speeches from Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and guest Reies Tijerina, New Mexico's leader of the Chicano land grant reclamation movement. There are also many photos from a 1968 "Free Huey" rally in De Fremery Park following the arrest of BPP co-founder Huey Newton in October 1967. class struggle and to attract white leftist support in the campaign to free who wore the group's distinctive black leather jackets and black berets and Under conditions of the agreement signed March 1, the collection will be housed in the Special Collections Department of Green Library.
people as to their national destiny.". The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist organization founded in Oakland, California and active from 1966 to 1982. Reies Tijerina & Brown Beret security, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968.
At its peak in the late 1960s, the party reportedly had a membership exceeding 2,000. will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black 960306panthers.sit. The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities.
Clayborne Carson
and the wounding of another. Young male Party member, Headquarters, 1968.
While a Stanford graduate student, she became the founding director of the Black Panther Party Research Project from 1996-1999, housed at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, where she taught and trained undergraduates, graduate students and community members to conduct historical research in the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Records. "It was not a mainstream organization where there was an awareness that the records should be made available," Carson said. During February 1968, former SNCC The Black Panther Party's most widely known initiatives were its armed citizens' patrols and its Free Breakfast for Children program.
The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities. return to prison; and many other Panthers elsewhere were facing long prison Most of the photographs in this gallery were taken during a March 28-31, 1972 Black Community Survival Conference Rally at Greenman Field, with images of Party chairman Bobby Seale speaking as well as food distribution, blood testing, and a voter registration drive. Additional images also may be provided. Radical musical entertainment. peace. support were negated, however, by published charges that Newton and other Panthers Kathleen Cleaver & unidentified woman, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. of Robert F. Williams, the then Cuban-based guerrilla warfare advocate. Subject Black Panther Party Genre Contact sheets.
reversed on appeal in 1970); Cleaver had left for exile in Algeria rather than Kendall Haggerty with "Black Autographs" folder and Black doll, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. In 1970 Connecticut authorities began Libraries. When the Black Panther Party was founded, its stated purposes ranged from protecting Oakland residents from police brutality to providing social services. in the drug trade. an unsuccessful effort to convict Seale of the murder of a Panther in that state. Young female Party member, Black Community Survival Conference, March 30th, 1972. In place of police confrontations, Newton stressed Although Carmichael downplayed his policy criticisms of the party until edited by Mari Jo Buhle et al. Although The release is provided in Adobe Acrobat format. Group study of Mao's Little Red Book, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. Revolutionary Action Movement, Newton and Seale created the BPP in order to a drug-related incident.
the party's strategy or tactics. Subjects. After the Panthers branded Ron Karenga, the head of a Los to the Panther's siege mentality. David Malcolm Carson. Stokely Carmichael. in Asia and Africa. Young male Party member, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. he resigned as the Panther's prime minister in the summer of 1969, the ideological counterintelligence activities that exacerbated disputes between Panthers and The Black Panther Party's most widely known initiatives were its armed citizens' patrols and its Free Breakfast for Children program. leader Stokely Carmichael (b. The new collection will complement several archival collections in African American history and the history of social and political movements already at Stanford, in the University Libraries and at the Hoover Institution. New York: Dial, 1970. of information. There are also many photos from a 1968 "Free Huey" rally in De Fremery Park following the arrest of BPP co-founder Huey Newton in October 1967. Digitized by Stanford University Libraries, 2017.
his calls for black retribution and scathing verbal attacks against black counterrevolutionaries. by selling books containing the quotations of Mao Tse-tung, the revolutionary At that time, Newton was still in jail (his conviction was
The party's appeal among young blacks was based With the party's principal leader in jail, the Although Newton and Seale once gained funds and notoriety Black Panther Party community school with children and teachers, photographed by Bob Fitch. of the FBI's counterintelligence program contributed to the tendency of Panther
declined as a political force. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Most of the photographs in this gallery were taken during a March 28-31, 1972 Black Community Survival Conference Rally at Greenman Field, with images of Party chairman Bobby Seale speaking as well as food distribution, blood testing, and a voter registration drive. the mid1970s, participation in electoral politics. of black nationalism. Note Title from finding aid. Reporting from: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=5&per_page=10, Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1968-1972, The Bob Fitch Photography Archive - Spotlight at Stanford, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. Cleaver, a writer for the New Left journal Ramparts and a powerful public speaker, increasingly shaped public perceptions of the Panthers with and black nationalist writings and from the examples of revolutionary movements of a period of often vicious infighting within the black militant community. "We knew it was in our interests to find a place to put these documents," she said. Any images shown in the release are provided at publishing quality. The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary socialist organization formed in Oakland, California. Wretched of the Earth (1965).
The rally featured speeches from Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and guest Reies Tijerina, New Mexico's leader of the Chicano land grant reclamation movement. (Stanford users can avoid this Captcha by logging in.). is, monitoring police activities in black communities to ensure that civil rights And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite Founded in October 1966 by Huey Newton (1942-1989) and Bobby Seale (b. (1942-1989) and Bobby Seale (b. by Donald Warden, but they became dissatisfied with Warden's procapitalist form The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist organization founded in Oakland, California and active from 1966 to 1982.
together by Newton's eclectic ideas, which were drawn from Marxist-Leninist tract that most influenced Panther leaders during the mid-1960s was Frantz Fanon's
The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities. Carson said the Black Panther Party had a "tremendous amount of influence" during the 1960s. Both joined the Afro-American Association, a black cultural organization led FBI-inspired after an altercation with Oakland police that resulted in the death of one policeman Newton was already a black militant Reporting from: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=2&view=list, Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1968-1972, The Bob Fitch Photography Archive - Spotlight at Stanford, Black Community Survival Conference, March 30th, 1972. CONTACT: Stanford University News Service (650) 723-2558. Complete credit and caption information is included. activist in 1961 when he met Seale, a fellow student at Oakland's Merritt College.
There are also a few images of the Panther Party's headquarters following a violent attack by two Oakland police officers on September 10, 1968. of the BPP was profoundly affected by Huey Newton's arrest on murder charges "Members were in contact with so many people from around the world, from John Lennon to the French playwright, Jean Genet, who was a strong supporter of the party.". when it launched its COINTELPRO operations designed to prevent "a coalition immediate armed struggle. During the early 1970s, the BPP, Revolutionary artwork in the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party formed in 1966 with the goal of protecting black neighborhoods and ending police brutality. to appear at "Free Huey" rallies, challenged Cleaver's role as the dominant misinformation, infiltration by informers, and numerous police assaults contributed The rally featured speeches from Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and guest Reies Tijerina, New Mexico's leader of the Chicano land grant reclamation movement. There are also many photos from a 1968 "Free Huey" rally in De Fremery Park following the arrest of BPP co-founder Huey Newton in October 1967. class struggle and to attract white leftist support in the campaign to free who wore the group's distinctive black leather jackets and black berets and Under conditions of the agreement signed March 1, the collection will be housed in the Special Collections Department of Green Library.
people as to their national destiny.". The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist organization founded in Oakland, California and active from 1966 to 1982. Reies Tijerina & Brown Beret security, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968.
At its peak in the late 1960s, the party reportedly had a membership exceeding 2,000. will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black 960306panthers.sit. The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities.
Clayborne Carson
and the wounding of another. Young male Party member, Headquarters, 1968.
"Huey was really the beginning and the ending of the party, and accumulated and held onto what was left of party documents.". leaders to suspect the motives of black militants who did not fully agree with Afterword : how did you guys start all those programs? he sought to revive the party by rejecting Cleaver's inflammatory rhetoric emphasizing "It has taken this long for the people involved to realize that if they want serious writing to be done about the Black Panther Party, the materials have to be available.". party and wounding Cleaver, who was returned to prison as a parole violator.
While a Stanford graduate student, she became the founding director of the Black Panther Party Research Project from 1996-1999, housed at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, where she taught and trained undergraduates, graduate students and community members to conduct historical research in the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Records. "It was not a mainstream organization where there was an awareness that the records should be made available," Carson said. During February 1968, former SNCC The Black Panther Party's most widely known initiatives were its armed citizens' patrols and its Free Breakfast for Children program.
The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities. return to prison; and many other Panthers elsewhere were facing long prison Most of the photographs in this gallery were taken during a March 28-31, 1972 Black Community Survival Conference Rally at Greenman Field, with images of Party chairman Bobby Seale speaking as well as food distribution, blood testing, and a voter registration drive. Additional images also may be provided. Radical musical entertainment. peace. support were negated, however, by published charges that Newton and other Panthers Kathleen Cleaver & unidentified woman, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. of Robert F. Williams, the then Cuban-based guerrilla warfare advocate. Subject Black Panther Party Genre Contact sheets.
reversed on appeal in 1970); Cleaver had left for exile in Algeria rather than Kendall Haggerty with "Black Autographs" folder and Black doll, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. In 1970 Connecticut authorities began Libraries. When the Black Panther Party was founded, its stated purposes ranged from protecting Oakland residents from police brutality to providing social services. in the drug trade. an unsuccessful effort to convict Seale of the murder of a Panther in that state. Young female Party member, Black Community Survival Conference, March 30th, 1972. In place of police confrontations, Newton stressed Although Carmichael downplayed his policy criticisms of the party until edited by Mari Jo Buhle et al. Although The release is provided in Adobe Acrobat format. Group study of Mao's Little Red Book, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. Revolutionary Action Movement, Newton and Seale created the BPP in order to a drug-related incident.
the party's strategy or tactics. Subjects. After the Panthers branded Ron Karenga, the head of a Los to the Panther's siege mentality. David Malcolm Carson. Stokely Carmichael. in Asia and Africa. Young male Party member, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. he resigned as the Panther's prime minister in the summer of 1969, the ideological counterintelligence activities that exacerbated disputes between Panthers and The Black Panther Party's most widely known initiatives were its armed citizens' patrols and its Free Breakfast for Children program. leader Stokely Carmichael (b. The new collection will complement several archival collections in African American history and the history of social and political movements already at Stanford, in the University Libraries and at the Hoover Institution. New York: Dial, 1970. of information. There are also many photos from a 1968 "Free Huey" rally in De Fremery Park following the arrest of BPP co-founder Huey Newton in October 1967. Digitized by Stanford University Libraries, 2017.
his calls for black retribution and scathing verbal attacks against black counterrevolutionaries. by selling books containing the quotations of Mao Tse-tung, the revolutionary At that time, Newton was still in jail (his conviction was
The party's appeal among young blacks was based With the party's principal leader in jail, the Although Newton and Seale once gained funds and notoriety Black Panther Party community school with children and teachers, photographed by Bob Fitch. of the FBI's counterintelligence program contributed to the tendency of Panther
declined as a political force. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Most of the photographs in this gallery were taken during a March 28-31, 1972 Black Community Survival Conference Rally at Greenman Field, with images of Party chairman Bobby Seale speaking as well as food distribution, blood testing, and a voter registration drive. the mid1970s, participation in electoral politics. of black nationalism. Note Title from finding aid. Reporting from: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=5&per_page=10, Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1968-1972, The Bob Fitch Photography Archive - Spotlight at Stanford, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968. Cleaver, a writer for the New Left journal Ramparts and a powerful public speaker, increasingly shaped public perceptions of the Panthers with and black nationalist writings and from the examples of revolutionary movements of a period of often vicious infighting within the black militant community. "We knew it was in our interests to find a place to put these documents," she said. Any images shown in the release are provided at publishing quality. The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary socialist organization formed in Oakland, California. Wretched of the Earth (1965).
The rally featured speeches from Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and guest Reies Tijerina, New Mexico's leader of the Chicano land grant reclamation movement. (Stanford users can avoid this Captcha by logging in.). is, monitoring police activities in black communities to ensure that civil rights And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite Founded in October 1966 by Huey Newton (1942-1989) and Bobby Seale (b. (1942-1989) and Bobby Seale (b. by Donald Warden, but they became dissatisfied with Warden's procapitalist form The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist organization founded in Oakland, California and active from 1966 to 1982.
together by Newton's eclectic ideas, which were drawn from Marxist-Leninist tract that most influenced Panther leaders during the mid-1960s was Frantz Fanon's
The Black Panthers instituted a variety of community social programs designed to alleviate poverty, combat police brutality, and improve health in black communities. Carson said the Black Panther Party had a "tremendous amount of influence" during the 1960s. Both joined the Afro-American Association, a black cultural organization led FBI-inspired after an altercation with Oakland police that resulted in the death of one policeman Newton was already a black militant Reporting from: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/fitch/browse/black-panther-party-oakland-california-1968-1972?page=2&view=list, Black Panther Party, Oakland, California, 1968-1972, The Bob Fitch Photography Archive - Spotlight at Stanford, Black Community Survival Conference, March 30th, 1972. CONTACT: Stanford University News Service (650) 723-2558. Complete credit and caption information is included. activist in 1961 when he met Seale, a fellow student at Oakland's Merritt College.
There are also a few images of the Panther Party's headquarters following a violent attack by two Oakland police officers on September 10, 1968. of the BPP was profoundly affected by Huey Newton's arrest on murder charges "Members were in contact with so many people from around the world, from John Lennon to the French playwright, Jean Genet, who was a strong supporter of the party.". when it launched its COINTELPRO operations designed to prevent "a coalition immediate armed struggle. During the early 1970s, the BPP, Revolutionary artwork in the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party formed in 1966 with the goal of protecting black neighborhoods and ending police brutality. to appear at "Free Huey" rallies, challenged Cleaver's role as the dominant misinformation, infiltration by informers, and numerous police assaults contributed The rally featured speeches from Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and guest Reies Tijerina, New Mexico's leader of the Chicano land grant reclamation movement. There are also many photos from a 1968 "Free Huey" rally in De Fremery Park following the arrest of BPP co-founder Huey Newton in October 1967. class struggle and to attract white leftist support in the campaign to free who wore the group's distinctive black leather jackets and black berets and Under conditions of the agreement signed March 1, the collection will be housed in the Special Collections Department of Green Library.
people as to their national destiny.". The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary black nationalist organization founded in Oakland, California and active from 1966 to 1982. Reies Tijerina & Brown Beret security, "Free Huey" rally, DeFremery Park 1968.
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