a Chinese translation of a CRC pamphlet on Wesley Robert Wells, who would [...]
a Chinese translation of a CRC pamphlet on Wesley Robert Wells, who would later say, “the power of the people got me out, and I am deeply grateful” https://t.co/FoxXCuHeGS
October 19, 1966: 55 years ago, Oct 19 1966, over 250 students rioted at Castlemont High [...]
55 years ago, Oct 19 1966, over 250 students rioted at Castlemont High School and along East 14th Street in Oakland. Though public officials blamed the Ad Hoc’s school boycott, the riot was a response to the brutal beating of two Castlemont students by police the previous night A Castlemont …
the Communist Party's 1950s anti-police brutality campaigns in Oakland [...]
the Communist Party’s 1950s anti-police brutality campaigns in Oakland (one of which defended Mark Comfort) had a major impact on the young Huey Newton, who later said CP lawyers Bob Treuhaft and Bertram Edises were “among his boyhood heroes” https://t.co/1fi4qyCF8F
a modest thread on the political context that produced the black panther [...]
a modest thread on the political context that produced the black panther party: https://t.co/Sol4dQQXP1
October 15, 1966: 55 years ago, Oct 15 1966, Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale, radical [...]
55 years ago, Oct 15 1966, Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale, radical students at Oakland’s Merritt College formed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Inspired by SNCC’s Lowndes County Freedom Organization, the BPP would have an enormous impact on global revolutionary politics While they quickly made a major impact …