Bobby Seale in a classroom at UC Santa Cruz, January 1968
Bobby Seale in a classroom at UC Santa Cruz, January 1968
Student-age Chicago kids at a rally in Lincoln Park, there to hear Bobby Seale speak, during the Democratic Convention, August 1968
Bobby Seale (center) and Stew Albert (right) and an unidentified leader of the civil rights movement (left) at Lincoln Park in Chicago during the Democratic Convention, August 1968
At a rally near City Hall in San Francisco, April 1968
Bobby Hutton, a younger member of the Black Panther's Oakland chapter, April 1968. (He was killed in a police shoot-out just days later.)
The Black Panther Party was born in Oakland, inspired by the Alabama Lowndes County Freedom Organization and Stokely Carmichael's call for black self-defense. Its strength was in California cities where police harassment in black communities was all too common. Photos taken between 1967 and 1969.