Revisited: The Black Panther Party

From: The New Crisis | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Salim Muwakkil went straight to the Black Panther Party office in Jersey City, NJ., after his discharge from the U.S. Air Force in late 1969. Frustrated by the pacifism of civil rights leaders and embittered by his own experiences with police brutality, Muwakkil joined the militant Black Panthers to make a difference.

Rosemari Mealey's motivation was much the same. Visiting the bullet-riddled apartment of Chicago Panther leader Fred Hampton shortly after his violent death on December 4, 1969, pushed Mealey, a Philadelphia cultural activist, "off the fence" and into the Black Panthers. ...

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