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Alternative Radio (Aust.) PO Box 780 Morwell Victoria 3848 Australia tel. 61-3-5134-8556 mob. 61-413-597-828 inquiries@araustralia.org |
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In the sixties and seventies, the Black Panther Party captured the imagination of millions in the US and around the world. The organisation also attracted the rapt attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Herbert Hoover's FBI launched a sustained counterintelligence program to infiltrate, disrupt and destroy the Panthers. The media and popular history have focused on gun toting Panther militancy and ignored the group's dedication to community organising and providing much-needed services. Seale's candid eyewitness account of the Panthers' rise and fall makes for a memorable program.
Bobby Seale, along with Huey P. Newton, started the Black Panther Party. He was the organisation's first chairman.
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