[Free Huey May Day rally poster] [graphic]. 1969.

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[Free Huey May Day rally poster] [graphic]. 1969.

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Poster promoting May Day rally in support of release on bail of Huey P. Newton, then Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party. Illustrated with two portraits of Newton.

1 print (poster) : color ; 45 x 56 cm

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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...