Aweusi, Alli Collection 1969-1995
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Newton, Huey Percy, 1942-1989
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Huey Percy Newton was notable for being a co-founder of the Black Panther Party; Newton crafted the Party's ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale in 1966. Under Newton's leadership, the Black Panther Party founded over 60 community support programs In 1967, he was involved in a shootout with the police. In 1968, he was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. In May 1970, the conviction was reversed. He went on to earn a PhD in social philosophy from the University of California at Santa Cruz's Histo...
Black Panther Party
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The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of the United States and even abroad. The armed militancy and Marxist rhetoric employed by the Black Panthers, along with their philosophy of Black self-government caught the attention of both local law enforcement authorities and the FBI. As a result, many in the Pant...
Aweusi, Alli
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Alli Aweusi (John O. Greenlow III) was a former member of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in the 1960s and 1970s. In the mid 1960s, Aweusi began documenting the Panthers and other aspects of the civil rights movement. He moved to Austin in 1981 and became involved in the music, art, and poetry scene. In 1994 he started the Catfish Poets, an Austin poetry group aimed at African-Americans. Aweusi passed away in Austin in 2003, at the age of fifty-six. From the guide to the Awe...
