Photographs of Angela Davis, Emory Douglas, Ericka Huggins, and David Hilliard by Susanna Lucia Lamaina, 1984-2011.

Huggins, Ericka, 1948-

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Ericka Jenkins was born in Washington, DC and attended Lincoln University, where she met her future husband John Huggins, a Vietnam veteran. She joined the Black Panther Party (BPP) in 1968 and she and John became leaders in the Los Angeles chapter. Three weeks after their daughter Mai was born, her husband was murdered in January 1969. Later Ericka, Kathleen Cleaver, and Elaine Brown led the New Haven (Connecticut) chapter of the Party. That same year, BPP member Alex Rackley was tortured, i...

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...

Douglas, Emory 1945-

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Hilliard, David A. (David Alan), 1963-

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Lamaina, Susanna Lucia,

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