Black Panther Party
Demonstrators dance at a rally in support of the Black Panther Party in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 1, 1970. The rally coincided with the start of the trial of the New Haven Nine. David Fenton/Getty Images
The Untold Story Of The Women Who Led Britain’s Black Panther Movement '' Photo by Neil Kenlock.
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Black Panther Party
A Free Huey demonstration at Alameda County Court House during Huey Newton’s trial.Credit...Pirkle Jones/Regents of the University of California, Courtesy of University Library at UC Santa Cruz Image
Black Panther Party
Free Huey rally at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park (formerly DeFremery Park) in Oakland.Credit...Pirkle Jones/Regents of the University of California, Courtesy of University Library at UC Santa Cruz.
Selling The Black Panther newspaper at a U.C. Berkeley rally.Credit...Pirkle Jones/Regents of the University of California, Courtesy of University Library at UC Santa Cruz
Members of the Black Panthers line up at an anti-fascist demonstration in Oakland, Calif., in December 1969.AFP via Getty Images
At the Black Panthers’ free breakfast for children program, St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church (merged with Trinity Church in 1975). Commissioned by the Swedish magazine Vi.Credit...Ruth-Marion Baruch/Regents of the University of California, Courtesy of University Library at UC Santa Cruz.
Arms for peace
In 1966, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in Oakland, California to challenge and confront police brutality against African-Americans.
The BPP movement grows
Pictured is a scene from the May 2 proceedings: Police Lt. Ernest Holloway informs BPP members that they will be allowed to keep their weapons as long as do not disturb the peace. Getty Images
the Black Panthers Members arrested. Getty Images
Left, BPP members distribute free hot dogs to the public in New Haven, Connecticut. David Fenton/Getty Images
A line of BPP members demonstrate with fists raised outside the New York City courthouse, April 11, 1969. David Fenton/Getty Images
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Kathleen Cleaver, left, served as the BPP's press secretary and played a prominent role in disseminating the organization's message to the masses — and following Martin Luther King's 1968 assassination, called on members to attack police. Vimeo/The New York Times
Women in the BPP
"Free Huey!"David Fenton/Getty Images
In the photo, Huey Newton puffs on a cigarette in a holding cell while a jury deliberated his fate.
Black Panthers at the Democratic National Convention
Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton reclines on the grass as he answers questions from a Liberation News Service reporter on the campus of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in April 1970. David Fenton/Getty Images
Black Panther Deputy Minister of Information Elbert "Big Man" Howard, center, and Black Panther Chief of Staff David Hilliard, right, hold a press conference to discuss the imprisonment of Erica Huggins and Bobby Seale, New Haven, CT, April 30, 1970. David Fenton/Getty Images
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In 1971, BPP Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver traveled to Algeria to establish an international Black Panther chapter.
1970 marked the BPP's apex, and the organization boasted 68 offices throughout the United States and tens of thousands of members. Vimeo/The New York Times
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Black Panther Party
Mourners comfort each other as they view the body of slain Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton before the start of funeral services. Getty Images
By 1974, Newton appointed Elaine Brown (left) to serve as the first BPP Chairwoman.
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In this image, members of the New Black Panther Party march through the streets of Washington to demonstrate against the inauguration of George W. Bush. SHAWN THEW/AFP/Getty Images
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the Women of the Black Panther Movement
the Women of the Black Panther Movement
the Women of the Black Panther Movement
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A bullet hole in the glass window of Black Panther Party National Headquarters, Oakland, CA
A Free Huey rally, DeFremery Park, Oakland. Newton's conviction was overturned and in 1970 he was released from prison
George Murray, Minister of Education, teaching English at San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA
Marin City Black Panthers photographed by Pirkle Jones in 1968. Jones stood in solidarity with them and his images were first printed in The Black Panther weekly newspaper before going on display at San Francisco’s de Young Museum shortly after
The streets of Oakland. Elbert ‘Bigman’ Howard, one of the Panther founders, said the couple ‘had a great eye for humanity'
A man pictured serving food to girl at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church under the Black Panther Free Breakfast for Children Program. The couple aimed to show a different image of the protesters from the mainstream media at the time
Jones and Barruch’s archival photographs
The images show people of all ages taking on police brutality, including these women, with community activism, political education campaigns and coalitions with local and national organizations
Jones took this image of men talking on park bench. Vanguard Revisited will take pictures from 1968 taken by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch and display them alongside new images of the Black Panther Party from 1969 onwards
Baruch said of the Black Panthers, pictured here in 1968 at a Free Huey rally in Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, 'we can only tell you: This is what we saw. This is what we felt. These are the people'
The children of Captain David Hilliard, Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, pictured at a Free Huey rally at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park taken by Ruth-Marion Baruch who gained unprecedented access to the group
Ruth-Marion Baruch, left, photographs one campaigner helping out at a Panther free breakfast for children program. Community activism and strong political education played a large role in The Black Panther Party
American professor of law Kathleen Cleaver wearing dashiki during a Black Panther rally in 1968. A new exhibition will document the unseen side of the Black Panther Party in a series of never before seen images
The Amazing Lost Legacy of the British Black Panthers By Photos: Neil Kenlock, Words: Bruno Bayley
British Black Panther Party
A Free Huey rally at Bobby Hutton Memorial Park (formerly DeFremery Park) in Oakland.Credit...Pirkle Jones/Regents of the University of California, Courtesy of University Library at UC Santa Cruz
Sam Sagay as a young man in London and in his later years in Nigeria [Photos courtesy of Sam Sagay]
A protest in solidarity with Anguilla against the British invasion of the island, supported by the Black Panther Movement, at Piccadilly Circus in London on March 24, 1969 [Daily Express/Pictorial Parade/Hulton Archive/Getty Images]
the Women of the Black Panther Movement
the Women of the Black Panther Movement
Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative Party, listens as Enoch Powell, right, addresses delegates during the session of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, England on October 19, 1967 [AP Photo/ Harris]
Black Panther Women: The Unsung Activists Who Fed and Fought for Their Community
the Women of the Black Panther Movement
the Women of the Black Panther Movement
Sam Sagay speaking to an audience in London in the 1960s [Photo courtesy of Sam Sagay]
Sam Sagay in London [Photo courtesy of Sam Sagay]
The Mangrove was a Caribbean restaurant on All Saints Road in Ladbroke Grove, London, that was repeatedly raided by police, prompting a protest march by locals [Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty images]
Bobby Seale The Black Panther (May 2, 1970)
OLYMPIC GAMES, 1968. American runners Tommie Smith (left) and John Carlos (right) giving the Black Power salute during the medal ceremonies at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Photograph, 1968
BLACK PANTHER POSTER. 'Political prisoners of USA Fascism.' Poster depicting Black Panther Party founders Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton with guns, 1960s or 1970s.
BLACK PANTHER POSTER. 'Wherever death may surprise us, it will be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, reaches some receptive ear.' Poster by Emory for the Black Panther Party, 1960s or 1970s
ANGELA DAVIS (1944- ). American political activist. On an FBI 'Wanted' poster, issued on 18 August 1970
BLACK PANTHERS, 1968. Button supporting Black Panther Party cofounders and political activists Huey P. Newton for Congress and Bobby Seale for State Assembly
BLACK PANTHER, c1967. Black Panther: Huey for Congress, Peace and Freedom. Political button in support of Huey P. Newton cofounder of the Black Panther Party.
AMSTERDAM: PROTEST, 1970. Demonstration for the Black Panther activist Bobby Seale in Amsterdam, Holland. Photograph, 24 April 1970.
ANGELA DAVIS TRIAL, 1972. Herbert Marcuse, Marxist philosopher and teacher of political activist Angela Davis, walks toward the search shed outside the courtroom in San Jose, California, during Davis' trial, March 1972. With him are Davis' friend, Bettina Aptheker, and mother, Mrs. Sallye Davis.
BLACK PANTHERS, 1970. Free The Panther 21. Button supporting twenty-one Black Panther members who were arrested and falsely accused of planned coordinated bombing and long-range rifle attacks on two police stations in NYC in 1969 were all acquitted by a jury in May 1971
ANGELA DAVIS (1944- ). American political activist. Davis speaking at a rally against the death penalty outside the state capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina, 4 July 1974.
ANGELA DAVIS (1944- ). American political activist. Davis speaking at a rally against the death penalty outside the state capitol building in Raleigh, North Carolina, 4 July 1974.
AMSTERDAM: PROTEST, 1970. Demonstration for the Black Panther activist Bobby Seale in Amsterdam, Holland. Photograph, 14 March 1970.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL (1941-1998). American (Trinidadian born) civil rights activist. Carmichael (right) being interviewed by Stanley S. Scott at the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) headquarters in New York. Photograph, 1966
BLACK PANTHER POSTER. 'One of our main purposes is to unify our brothers and sisters in the North with our brothers and sisters in the South.' Poster by Emory for the Black Panther Party, 1960s or 1970s
BOBBY SEALE, c1965. All power to the people. Political button in support of Robert George Seale (1936- ), cofounder of the Black Panther Party.
BLACK PANTHER POSTER, c1970. Poster depicting a person in native African dress carrying an automatic weapon and a book titled 'Black Studies.' Poster produced by the Black Panther Party, c1970
OLYMPIC GAMES, 1968. American runners Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) showing the Black Power salute during the medal ceremonies at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. Australian Peter Norman (left) wears an OPHR badge in solidarity. Photograph, 1968
0260554 BLACK PANTHERS, 1970. Crowds gathered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., during a Black Panther convention, with some party members holding a banner calling for a Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention, 19 June 1970. Photographed by Warren K. Leffler or Thomas J. O'Halloran
BERLIN: VIETNAM PROTEST. American Black Panther member, Dale A. Smith, giving a speech at a rally against the American involvement in the Vietnam War, held at the Technical University in West Berlin, 17 February 1968. Full credit: Mehner - ullstein bild / Granger, NYC
BLACK PANTHERS, 1970. Local Black Panther leader John Clark standing in front of a window at party offices in Baltimore, Maryland, that is covered with posters of Huey Newton (center) and other party leaders. Photographed by Henning Christoph, 1970. Full credit: ullstein bild - H. Christoph / Granger, NYC.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1935-1998). American political leader, radical intellectual, and author. Photographed by Marion S. Trikosko, 1968.
BLACK PANTHERS, 1970. A man holding a banner on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial while attending a Black Panther convention in Washington, D.C., 19 June 1970. Photographed by Warren K. Leffler or Thomas J. O'Halloran.
BLACK PANTHERS, 1967. Armed Black Panthers on the steps of the California state capitol, protesting a bill banning the carrying of loaded firearms, 2 May 1967.
BLACK PANTHERS, 1969. Kansas City Black Panther Bill Whitfield serves breakfast to local children as part of the Panther free breakfast program, 16 April 1969.
Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver with their newborn
Bronx In The 60s The Black Panther Party
Black Panther Party Liberation School in Oakland, California, 1968.
the Women of the Black Panther Movement
A collection of photos by Neil Kenlock of the British Black Panther party from 1968-1972.
Huey Newton and his family
A collection of photos by Neil Kenlock of the British Black Panther party from 1968-1972.
A collection of photos by Neil Kenlock of the British Black Panther party from 1968-1972.
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Albert Howard, Black Panther
John Hulett walking past people standing in line to vote in Lowndes County, Alabama in 1966. He is holding a balloon that reads, “Vote Nov. 8 Lowndes County Freedom Organization.” © Alabama Department of Archives and History, Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Women! Free Our Sisters Poster featuring an image of protesting women and a list of demands. This poster was used to announce a protest scheduled for November 22, 1969 orchestrated by the N.E. Women's Liberation and the Black Panther Party of Connecticut in support of six female Black Panthers who were being held in Niantic Connecticut State Women's Prison.
Black Panther March
Flier for the 1972 Black Community Survival Conference with promotion provided by the Black Panther Party's Angela Davis People's Free Food Program.
Panther Free Food Program Children Prepare Bags of Food for Distribution at the Oakland Collesium at the Black Panther Community Survival Conference, Oakland, California, March 1972
George Jackson’s funeral at St. Augustine’s Church, Oakland, California, 1971
Two women with bags of food at the People’s Free Food Program, one of the Panther’s survival initiatives, Palo Alto, California, 1972
William Hampton (from left), brother of slain Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton Sr., the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Black Panther Party official Bobby Rush and Renault Robinson, president of the Afro American Patrolmen’s League, are shown at a December 1969 news conference at the Capitol Theatre in Chicago
Members of the Black Panther Party march in the Loop in October 1969.
Shepard Fairey. Jesse Nubian. 2019. Courtesy of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery. https://jstor.org/stable/community.27081944.
A boy gives raised fist salute in front of the New Haven courthouse during a demonstration by 15,000 people in1970. Bobby Seale, chairman of the party, and Ericka Huggins were on trial along for murder. Both were acquitted. Photograph: Stephen Shames
Flyer Promoting a Rally for Angela Davis Day, September 1971, Third World Women's Alliance, American. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Black and white poster of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Black Panther Party, American, 1966. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Alfredo Rostgaard, Cuban, Black Power, 1960s. National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. CC0.
Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense, 1968, Blair Stapp, Black Panther Party, American.
Poster for a Free Huey Rally at De Fremery Park, 1960s, Black Panther Party, American. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Evidence of Intimidation & Fascist Crimes by USA: The War on the Black Panther Party 1968 - 1969. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The Black Panther Movement at the Mangrove Nine march in 1970 [Photo courtesy of National Archives UK]
Activist, revolutionary and Black Power leader Michael de Freitas aka Michael X (1933-1975) on August 31, 1967 [Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images]
Stokely Carmichael speaks in support of Black Power at the Chalk Farm Roundhouse in London on June 25, 1967 [Serena Wadham/Keystone/Getty Images]
A special edition of Black Power Speaks featuring a message from Kwame Nkrumah (July 1968) [Photo courtesy of George Padmore Institute]
The owners of the Mangrove restaurant after their court appearance at Kensington Petty Sessions on August 15, 1970. (From left to right) Roy Hemmings, Jean Cabussel and Frank Crichlow. The restaurant was at the centre of a Black Power demonstration after being subjected to numerous police raids [Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images]
Black Panther Movement at the Mangrove demonstration in 1970 [Photo courtesy of National Archives UK]
Special edition of Black Power Speaks featuring a message from Kwame Nkrumah (July 1968} [Photo courtesy of George Padmore Institute]
A protest in solidarity with Anguilla against the British invasion of the island, supported by the Black Panther Movement, at Piccadilly Circus in London on March 24, 1969 [Daily Express/Pictorial Parade/Hulton Archive/Getty Images]
Gus Hall (1972) Free Angela Davis And All Political Prisoners. Courtesy of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery.
Angela Nubian / Facing the Giant: 3 Decades of Dissent: Power And Equality. Courtesy of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery.
What Are You Doing To Free Angela. 1970-1972. Courtesy of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery.
'Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party' , 1970. ( Courtesy of Poster House )
Black Panthers Party, 2017
Black Panther Party demonstrating outside the New York County Criminal Court in New York City on April 11, 1969.
Armed members of the Black Panther Party stand inside the California Capitol in 1967. (Walt Zeboski / Associated Press )
British Black Panthers, c1970. By Neil Kenlock.
Black Panthers activists take part in a protest march. By Neil Kenlock
Angela Davis in By Neil Kenlock
Olive Morris in about 1978 at a rally outside the Brixton Tate Library, where she and other protesters accused the Special Patrol Group, an arm of the police department intended to combat public disorder, of targeting the black community. London Borough of Lambeth, Archives Department
A group of schoolgirls carry radical school bags.
A demonstration by the British Black Panther movement in London, around 1971. By Neil Kenlock
Image taken by official in-house photographer for the Black British Panther Party. By Neil Kenlock.
Olive Morris by Neil Kenlock.
Neil Kenlock, self-portrait, 1970.
Movement members at the Black Panther headquarters on Shakespeare Road. By Neil Kenlock.
Poster advertising the May Day Rally held on the New Haven Green on May 1, 1970.
May 11, 1969 The Black Panther Newspaper.
Poster by Emory Douglas - November 8, 1969.
Warning to America by Emory Douglas.
The cover of The Black Panther newspaper, from January 4, 1969, Volume 2, Number 19.
Photograph of Bobby Seale by Jeffrey Henson Scales used in a collage on the cover of the Black Panther Paper, designed by Emory Douglas.
"My mama told me that, 'There are some people who are really servants of the people.'" by Emory Douglas, March 27, 1971.
Fireworks Graphics, SUPPORT THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY & ALL NEW AFRIKAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS. [Oakland:] National Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters, ca. 1981.
Political poster titled "All Power to the People" by Faith Ringgold.
"Free the Motherland", New Afrikan Black Panther Party, 2012
Berkeley Tribe: Volume 2, Number 6, Issue 32, 1970.
Poster: Support Eldridge Cleaver for President 1968
Page from The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service Vol. 5 No. 30, 1971. By Emory Douglas.
The cover of "Speak Out" no. 4, a publication by the Brixton Black Women's Group (BBWG).
Political statement titled "Demonstration / Political Statement" issued by "The Black People of London".
Eight members of the Mangrove Nine, December 1971; they are (front row, L-R) Rothwell Kentish, Rhodan Gordon, Altheia Jones-LeCointe, Barbara Beese; (top row, L-R) Frank Crichlow, Godfrey Millett, Rupert Boyce, Darcus Howe. The ninth member Anthony Innis is not in the picture. (Pic: Getty)
Neil Kenlock, Black Panther Demonstration, London, 1970s
Barbara Beese leads the demonstration against police brutality and raids on the Mangrove restaurant, 1970.
The British Black Power leader Michael X, in 1972 Credit: Popperfoto