Subcollections

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  Angela Davis
  Angela Davis is an African-American political activist and scholar. She emerged as a prominent activist in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and although never a member, had close relations with the Black Panther Party.
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  Assata Shakur
  Assata Shakur is an activist and icon of the Black Liberation Movement living in exile in Cuba. Assata was captured following a shootout in New Jersey in 1973. After being illegally held and tried for six years, she escaped in 1979.
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  Bayard Rustin
  Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) was an African-American activist involved in social movements for civil rights, socialism, non-violence and gay rights. Rustin was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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  Chokwe Lumumba
  Chokwe Lumumba is a activist, attorney, and a co-founder and member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He has represented a number of political prisoners and activists and well as been active in organizing for the Republic of New Afrika (RNA).
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  Eldridge Cleaver
  Eldridge Cleaver was a writer and political activist who became a prominent leader of the Black Panther Party, holding the titles of Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Panthers while in exile in Cuba and Algeria.
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  Dhoruba Bin Wahad
  Dhoruba Bin Wahad was a political prisoner active in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He served 19 years in prison as a result of a murder conviction facilitated by illegal COINTELPRO activities. Bin Wahad was released in 1995.
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  Donald Cox
  Donald Cox was a member of the Black Panther Party who fled to Algeria to escape a politically motivated murder conviction. He continued to remain active in the struggle for Black Liberation until his death in 2011.
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  Fred Hampton
  Fred Hampton was the Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and was one of the great young minds in the Black Liberation Movement. Fred Hampton was murdered by Chicago Police while asleep in his bed in 1969.
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  Vicki Garvin
  Vicki Ama Garvin (1915-2007) was a Pan-Africanist and internationalist, who lived and worked in both Ghana and China during the revolutionary period of the 1960s.
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  Geronimo Ji-Jaga (Pratt)
  Geronimo Ji-Jaga, affectionately known as "G", was a major figure in the Black Liberation Struggle. Geronimo was a member of the Black Panther Party and spent 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Geronimo passed away in 2011.
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  Huey Newton
  In 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland, California. Newton played a major role in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Movement until his death in 1989.
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  Kwame Ture
  Kwame Ture (FKA Stokely Carmichael) helped coin the phrase "Black Power" and was the first leader of SNCC. Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture, to honor the African leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Touré. Ture lived in Guinea until his death in 1998.
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  Malcolm X
  Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Malcolm X drew from elements of Pan-Africanism and Black Nationalism to challenge white supremacy and American imperialism.
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  Martin Luther King Jr.
  Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was a clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience.
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  Paul Robeson
  Paul Robeson was an African-American singer, actor, lawyer, social activist and athlete. Robeson was active in Pan-African and Communist organizing and subsequently was a target of government repression during McCarthyism.
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  Popeye Jackson
  While incarcerated at San Quentin, Popeye Jackson held a leadership position in the United Prisoners Union. He was murdered in 1975 in San Francisco.
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  Mabel and Robert F. Williams
  Mabel and Robert F. Williams were leading members of the struggle for Black Liberation, internationalism and staunch supporters of armed self-defense. After being forced to flee North Carolina, they lived in Cuba and China before returning to America.
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  Safiya Bukhari
  A member of the Black Panther Party and the BLA, Safiya Bukhari was imprisoned for nine years. Released in 1983, she went on to co-found the New York Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition and other organizations advocating for the release of political prisoners.
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  Dessie Woods
  Dessie Woods’ became internationally known after she was sentenced to 22 years in prison for killing a white man in Georgia with his own gun when he tried to rape her. A large-scale national and international solidarity movement developed around her case.
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  Bill Epton
  William Leo Epton Jr. was a Maoist African-American communist activist.