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The Black Power Movement

A copy of the Black Panther Party Platform and Program, 1966.

A copy of the Black Panther Party Platform and Program, 1966.

Citation Information: “Black Panther Party Platform and Program,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/8180a9e971c46037acff946e1be41e56.

Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

Courtesy of University of California Berkeley, Bancroft Library via California Digital Library.

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A copy of the Black Panther Party Platform and Program, 1966.

A clip of a television news conference with the Black Panther Party’s Huey Newton, 1971.

The Black Panther Manifesto by Eldridge Cleaver, 1970.

An excerpt from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s report on Malcolm X, circa 1950-65.

A photograph of Malcolm X and other pallbearers carrying the casket at the funeral of Ronald Stokes, April 30, 1962.

A handwritten statement submitted by defendant Bobby Seale, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, in 1969.

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