Sandbags line the walls of the New Haven Panther office to protect against a suspected police raid during the Bobby Seale trial, New Haven, Connecticut, May 1, 1970. Steven Kasher Gallery
Memorial mural for Jonathan Jackson, who was killed on August 7, 1970, during an attempt to kidnap California Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and three others to exchange for the freedom of his brother, George Jackson. Steven Kasher Gallery
Black Panther sells The Black Panther, the party’s newspaper in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1970. Steven Kasher Gallery
Kathleen Cleaver, communications secretary and the first female member of the Party’s decision-making Central Committee, talks with Black Panthers from Los Angeles, in West Oakland, California, July 28, 1968. Steven Kasher Gallery
Panthers March at Defermery Path, Oakland, Rally to Free Huey, 1969. Steven Kasher Gallery
Black Panthers carry George Jackson’s coffin into St. Augustine’s Church for his funeral service as a huge crowd watches. Oakland, California, USA, August 28, 1971
Free Huey Rally in front of the Alameda County Courthouse, Oakland, California, September 1968. Steven Kasher Gallery
Free Breakfast Program, Chicago, Illinois, 1970. Steven Kasher Gallery
August 28, 1971, Oakland, California: During George Jackson’s funeral, two Panthers look out at the enormous crowd gathered in the parking lot of a Safeway across the street from Augustine’s Church. On the left is Clark Bailey, known as Santa Rita, a member of The Lumpen, the Panther singing group. Clark is a bus driver and union leader. He is a co-founder of It’s About Time, the Black Panther alumni committee. © Stephen Shames/Polaris
May 1, 1970, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale students and community residents camp out in front of the Panther office to prevent a rumored police raid during the Bobby Seale / Ericka Huggins trial. Bobby Seale—Chairman of the Black Panther Party—and Ericka Huggins were on trial for murder. Both were acquitted. © Stephen Shames/Polaris
1st May 1969: Members of the Black Panther party demonstrate outside the Criminal Courts Building one month after 21 Panthers were charged with plotting to dynamite city stores, a police station and a railroad right-of-way, New York City. Jack Manning/New York Times Co./Getty Images
Demonstrators march with a ‘Free Huey’ banner in support of the Black Panther Party, New York, New York, April 4, 1970. The banner refers to imprisoned Panther co-founder Huey Newton. In 1967, Newton was charged in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old police officer, John Frey, during a traffic stop. Photo by David Fenton/Getty Images
UNITED STATES – MAY 12: Marlon Brando attending the Black Panther Party rally held as a memorial for Bobby Hutton, a young Panther killed by police during a planned ambush on the police. Dan Cronin/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images
A Black Panther funeral, Oakland, California, the late 1960s or early 1970s. Harold Adler/Underwood Archives/Getty Images
Los Angeles, CA: Police officers stand outside the Black Panthers stand outside the Black Panthers Party headquarters after they secured the premises after a pre-dawn raid on the building in which members of the party met the officers by firing automatic weapons. Three police officers and two members of the Black Panthers were reported wounded. Getty Images
Two members of the Black Panther Party are met on the steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento, May 2, 1967, by Police Lt. Ernest Holloway, who informs them they will be allowed to keep their weapons as long as they cause no trouble and do not disturb the peace. Earlier several members had invaded the Assembly chambers and had their guns taken away. Getty Images
Black Panther, teenagers, and children give the black power salute outside of their “Liberation School” in the Fillmore district of San Fransisco, December 20, 1969. UPI B/W.
Sources For Further Reading:
Encyclopedia Britannica – Black Panther Party
ThoughtCo – Biography of Huey Newton
National Geographic Channel – The Black Panthers: Revolutionaries, Free Breakfast Pioneers
Scholar Works – The Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program (Pdf)
Black Perspective – The Black Panther Party and the Free Breakfast for Children Program
Open Edition Journal – ‘Free Huey or the Sky’s the Limit’: The Black Panther Party and the Campaign to Free Huey P. Newton
Connecticut History – “Free Bobby, Free Ericka”: The New Haven Black Panther Trials
NYTimes – Black Panthers Are Sent Back to Cells After Mistrial
The Washington Post – You Cannot Fight Racism with Racism. You Have to Fight It with Solidarity
KCRW – The Lumpen: Power to the People: Inside the Black Panthers’ R&B Band
The Heroine Collective – Kathleen Neal Cleaver – Black Power and The Black Panther Party
