February 9, 1971: 53 years ago, Feb 8 1971, a bomb exploded at an abandoned Hunters Point [...]
53 years ago, Feb 8 1971, a bomb exploded at an abandoned Hunters Point house after San Francisco police had been lured there with false reports. The Black Panther Party enthused about the attack in its paper; a member of the Black Liberation Army later claimed responsibility
March 6, 1971: 53 years ago, March 5 1971, the Black Panther Party held the Revolutionary [...]
53 years ago, March 5 1971, the Black Panther Party held the Revolutionary Intercommunal Day of Solidarity in Oakland. Officially a fundraiser for four Black political prisoners, the event was an attempt by Huey P. Newton to consolidate support amidst a major split in the party The split in the …
March 12, 1971: 50 years ago, Mar 12 1971, Mahmoud Mahmoudpour, a native of Iran, set [...]
50 years ago, Mar 12 1971, Mahmoud Mahmoudpour, a native of Iran, set himself on fire in front of the Iranian Consulate. While he did not give an explicit reason, the consulate had been a site of protest against the brutal American-backed regime of Shah Pahlavi for years
March 29, 1971: 53 years ago, March 29 1971, Chicano students at Martin Luther King Junior [...]
53 years ago, March 29 1971, Chicano students at Martin Luther King Junior High School in Berkeley (now MLK Middle School) led a two-day walkout over the school’s mishandling of the beating of four Chicano girls They marched, joined by large numbers of Black and white students and parents, to …
April 23, 1971: 53 years ago, April 23 1971, a bomb blew through the ceiling of Stanford [...]
53 years ago, April 23 1971, a bomb blew through the ceiling of Stanford president Richard Lyman’s office. That same night a sniper shot five rounds into the oil-cooling drums of the transformer at the Panama Street electrical substation, nearly shutting off all Stanford’s power