![]() Charles Jones, head of the Africana Studies department at the University of Cincinnati, edited "The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered), a book of essays on Panther history. He was the person that folks thought was going to carry forward the vision of the party.īATES: So an April 6, against the advice of older Panthers, some of the younger members of the party went looking to confront the police. RICKEY VINCENT: Little Bobby Hutton represented for everyone sort of the next wave.īATES: Rickey Vincent lectures at Berkeley and Cal Arts about the cultural legacy of the Black Panther Party. ![]() Bobby Hutton, a 17-year-old who joined the Panthers to police the police, was there. ![]() And one of the issues in the Oakland police is that the Oakland police were, in many cases, not from Oakland.īATES: Eldridge Cleaver believed the police would soon find a reason to violently discipline the more radical elements of his community, so he engineered what he called a preemptive strike against the police. Kathleen Cleaver says the relationship between these neighborhoods and Oakland's police force has a difficult history.ĬLEAVER: The Oakland police beat up a lot of people. Oakland had not, in part because Black Panthers circulated in many of Oakland's black neighborhoods urging people to be cool. Several cities had gone up in flames after King's assassination. In 1968, she was a Black Panther married to Eldridge Cleaver, one of the organization's most prominent and polarizing members. Today, Cleaver teaches law at Emory University. KATHLEEN CLEAVER: There was a plan on the part of several carloads of Panthers that evening after Martin Luther King was killed that they were going to do something to retaliate.īATES: That's Kathleen Cleaver, a former Black Panther Party officer. King's funeral, Oakland's Black Panther Party had plans of its own. While plans went forward in Atlanta for Dr. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: April 6, 1968. Karen Grigsby Bates of our Code Switch team reports on what happened two days later. We recall what happened, of course, on April 4, 1968, when Martin Luther King was killed. Next we have a bit of hidden history from 50 years ago today.
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