Word: panther
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another reporter insisted to me it was-was not to be objective, but to accept the facade it had been given. This trial was important, to the State of Connecticut, to the black community, and to white radicals precisely because Lonnie McLucas is a member of the Black Panther Party...
Black people are probably one of the groups in the United States who experience oppression most severely, who have the least opportunity to control their own lives. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded in Oakland, California in 1967, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, to resist that oppression. The first actions the Panthers took were patrolling policemen in the black community, making sure that black men and women were not beaten and arrested without cause. Panther Party members carried guns, as was their legal right, because they saw that the power of the police...
...theorist. I can't judge whether the Panthers, in arming themselves, may have been precipitate, bringing down on themselves more repression than they could possibly resist at this time, repression that, if it doesn't kill them, may force them, to make their organization more and more severe and authoritarian. Perhaps that decision can't be made yet. What I do know is that I feel I'm in the same struggle the Panthers are in-though with much less risk to myself. I want most of the things they want. That's why the trial in New Haven...
Alex Rackley, a Panther from New York, arrived at the office of the New Haven Panther Party (the apartment of Panther Warren Kimbro) late Saturday night or early Sunday morning May 16, 1969. On Sunday morning George Sams, who had also just arrived in New Haven and who represented himself as a Panther from the national headquarters of the Party, accused Alex Rackley of being an in former. Sams beat Rackley and ordered Warren Kimbro to beat him. Lonnie McLucas, who had never seen either Sams or Rackley before, entered the apartment while this was happening. Then, under Sams' orders...
...Haven case, plea-bargaining had an extra dimension. Bobby Seale was present in New Haven for only one day, May 18, 1969, to make a speech at Yale. The only possible way he could be implicated in Alex Rackley's death is by the testimony of some other Panther directly involved who would say that Seale ordered Rackley's questioning, detention and murder...