Word: panthers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cast of characters is larger, the moral positions less clear-cut, the progress not always forward. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers move their desegregation campaign to Northern cities like Chicago, but with mixed success. Black Panther leaders like Huey Newton and Bobby Seale sound as threatening as the white racists they oppose. Riots break out in Watts, Detroit, and Attica prison. Meanwhile, the nation undergoes a virtual revolution of race consciousness. Negroes are transformed into blacks, Afro hairstyles become a political statement, and the rise of a sassy young heavyweight named Cassius Clay has reverberations...