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Today In History

Bobby Seale, political activist and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was born on this date October 22, 1936.

Seale and Newton wanted to organize the black community to express their desires and needs in order to resist the racism and classism perpetuated by the system. Seale described the Panthers as “an organization that represents black people and many white radicals relate to this and understand that the Black Panther Party is a righteous revolutionary front against this racist decadent, capitalistic system.”

Seale and Newton together wrote the doctrines "What We Want Now!”, which Seale said were intended to be “the practical, specific things we need and that should exist”, and “What We Believe,” which outlines the philosophical principles of the Black Panther Party in order to educate the people and disseminate information about the specifics of the party’s platform.

“The Ten Point Platform and Program of What We Want Now! And, What We Believe, culminating with the opening paragraphs of the United States Declaration of Independence, reflected the objectives of the party. Huey and I drafted the first version of this program at the North Oakland Neighborhood Service Center. The Ten Points simply says what black people have been crying for four hundred years. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our black community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny”-Bobby Seale

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Bobby Seale and Huey P Newton. Black Panther Party

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First Look at André Holland as Huey P. Newton In ‘The Big Cigar’

The Big Cigar tells the true story of how the Black Panther leader escaped from the FBI with the assistance of Hollywood producers and a fake movie production.

Cast includes André Holland as Huey P. Newton, Tiffany Boone as Gwen Fontaine, Jordane Christie as Bobby Seale, Moses Ingram as Teressa Dixon, and Alessandro Nivola as Bert Schneider.

The limited series premieres May 17 on Apple TV+.

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 Martin’s dead, Malcolm’s dead, Medgar’s dead, Bobby’s dead, Jesus is dead. They tried it peacefully, we gonna try it something else.

Yahya Adul Mateen II as Bobby Seale in The trial of the Chicago 7

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Happy birthday, Bobby Seale! (October 22, 1936)

A cofounder of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale was born to a poor Black family in Texas. His family would move around Texas for several years before settling in Oakland, California when Seale was eight years old, as part of the Great Migration. At age 19, Seale joined the United States Air Force, but was discharged for bad conduct after fighting with an officer. While studying at Merritt Community College, Seale met Huey P. Newton through the campus chapter of the Afro-American Association, and in 1966 the two founded the Black Panther Party. Seale and Newton collaborated on several pieces of BPP literature, including the Ten-Point Program. Like many activists, Seale was placed under surveillance by the FBI, which also sought to disrupt the BPP as part of its illicit COINTELPRO program. In 1968, Seale was arrested and tried as one of eight defendants facing charges for the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, although scarcely any evidence connected Seale to the planning of the protests. Seale railed against the nakedly political nature of his inclusion as a defendant, and while he was later severed from the case, and he was not convicted, he was sentenced to four years in prison on 16 counts of contempt of court. While in prison, Seale was again tried in the New Haven Black Panther trials, but the charges were ultimately dropped and his other convictions suspended, allowing him to leave prison in 1972. The next year, Seale came second in the election for Mayor of Oakland. He would leave the BPP in 1974, and has since mainly involved himself in charity work, education, and public speaking.

"They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines."

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Barkley L. Hendricks, Icon for My Man Superman (Superman Never Saved Any Black People – Bobby Seale), 1969.

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Revolutionary Suicide, Huey P. Newton

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The time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late.- Bobby Seale

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Poster announcing a conference by Jean Genet at the University of California in Los Angeles, [April 1970]. Jean Genet Archives / IMEC. Photo Michaël Quemener.

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Raised Fists and Guns. These posters chronicle the story of the Black Panther Party, 1967-1970.

From the exhibit “Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party” at Poster House, New York 1967 H. Rap Brown (Man with Match), Emory Douglas H. Rap Brown was a member of both the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party. He is associated with the phrase “burn, baby, burn,” hence the match. 1968 Bobby Hutton Murdered, Designer…

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1º de maio de 1970 - Garoto faz saudação com o punho cerrado enquanto ele e um amigo sentam em uma estátua em frente ao Tribunal do Condado de New Haven durante uma manifestação de 15.000 pessoas durante o julgamento de Bobby Seale e Ericka Huggins. Foto por Stephen Shames.