Young Lords oral history transcripts 1993-1996.

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Young Lords oral history transcripts 1993-1996.

This collection is comprised of transcriptions of interviews conducted with prominent members of the Young Lords Organization. It also includes an interview conducted by Cha-Cha Jimenez with Deborah Johnson (Akua Njeri), the wife of Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party.

Transcript : 1 box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8101580

DePaul University Library

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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...

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