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Making Contact: The Cultural Legacy of the Black Panther Party

Dec 09, 2016: 3pm - 3:30 pm
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Fifty years ago, the United States was in a period of tremendous social upheaval and cultural change. The Civil Rights Movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King had resulted in new federal legislation outlawing discriminatory laws, but police brutality and economic inequality rampant in black communities. In Oakland, California, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, spurred by the assassination of Malcolm X, began calling themselves Black Panthers. Fifty years after the birth of Black Panther Party, we take a look at the lasting cultural legacy of the Black Panther Party through the eyes of the generations that followed.