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Nina Simone 1965
Little Girl BlueMississippi Goddam
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Days of Ragethere was a stretch of time in America, roughly between 1968 and 1975, when there was on average more than one significant terrorist act in this country every week, and the FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government.
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The U.S. has a long history of political violence, from its legacy of slavery, to its birth in the Revolution, to the bloody Civil War…
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With the possible exception of the Ku Klux Klan, the U.S. until 1970 had never spawned any kind
of true underground terrorist movement
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With the possible exception of the Ku Klux Klan, the U.S. until 1970 had never spawned any kind
of true underground terrorist movement’70s radicals? Wasn’t that just a bunch of hippies protesting the Vietnam War?
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“The radicals of this new underground weren’t hippies, they weren’t primarily interested in the war, and it wasn’t the 1960’s”
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“The radicals of this new underground weren’t hippies, they weren’t primarily interested in the war, and it wasn’t the 1960’s” They were the furthest thing from hippies… they were, for the most part, deadly serious, hard-core leftists. “This was never about the war.
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“The radicals of this new underground weren’t hippies, they weren’t primarily interested in the war, and it wasn’t the 1960’s” They were the furthest thing from hippies… they were, for the most part, deadly serious, hard-core leftists. “This was never about the war. “We related to the war in a purely opportunistic way.”
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Offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives, and then eating a meal in the same room, far out!
The Weathermen dig Charles Manson.
Bernadine Dohrn at a Students for Democratic Society meeting, 1969
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“What it was always about was the plight of black Americans. Every single underground group (except the FALN) was concerned first and foremost with the struggle of blacks against police brutality, racism, and government repression.”
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“The black cause remained the core motivation of almost every significant radical who engaged in violent activities during the 1970’s.”
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“Everything started with the Black Panthers. The whole thrill of being with them.”
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“Everything started with the Black Panthers. The whole thrill of being with them.” “When you heard Huey Newton you were blown away.”
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“Everything started with the Black Panthers. The whole thrill of being with them.” When you heard Huey Newton you were blown away. “The civil rights movement had taken a turn.”
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If the story of the civil rights and antiwar movements is an inspiring tale of American empowerment and moral conviction, the underground years represent a desperate chapter that can seem easier to ignore.
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…one needs to understand the voices of black anger which began to be noticed in the 1950’s. It all began with the civil rights movement, led by black Americans.
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Blacks for the most part led and whites followed. At the end of the 1960’s it was violent black rhetoric that galvanized the people who went underground.
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The Black Panther Party was launched in October 1966. The party’s core practice was its armed citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality in Oakland, California. In 1969, community social programs became a core
activity of party members. The Black Panther Party instituted a variety of community social programs, most extensively the Free Breakfast for Children Programs, and community health clinics.
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Robert Franklin Williams was a key figure in promoting armed black self-defense in the U.S.
He obtained a charter from the National Rifle Association and set up a rifle club, which became active defending blacks from the Ku Klux Klan.
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His book Negroes with Guns (1962) details his experience with violent racism and his disagreement with the pacifist wing of the Civil Rights Movement. The text was widely influential.Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton cited it as a major inspiration. Rosa Parks gave the eulogy at Williams’ funeral in 1996, praising him for "his courage and for his commitment to freedom", and concluding that "The sacrifices he made, and what he did, should go down in history and never be forgotten."
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H. Rap Brown was chairman of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in the 1960s, and during a short, six-month alliance between and the Black Panthers, he served as their Minister of Justice.
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He is perhaps most famous for his proclamation during that period that "violence is as American as cherry pie", as well as once stating that "If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down".
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Huey Newton was an African-American political activist and revolutionary who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. Newton had a long series of confrontations with law enforcement, including several convictions, while he participated in political activism. He continued to pursue an education, eventually earning a Ph.D. in social philosophy. Newton spent time in prison for manslaughter due to his alleged involvement in a shooting that killed a police officer, but was later acquitted. In 1989 he was shot and killed in Oakland, California,
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Days of RageBobby Seale and Huey Newton created the Black Panther Party to resist police brutality and the killing of blacks "by any means necessary". He wrote the book, Seize the Time. Seale was one of the original "Chicago Eight" charged with conspiracy and inciting to riot, at the 1968 Democratic Convention, in Chicago. Because of
his outbursts in court, he was severed from the case, hence the "Chicago Seven." During the trial, one of Seale's many outbursts led the judge to have him bound and gagged.
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Angela Davis was a prominent counterculture activist in the ’60’s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests included prisoner rights. She was arrested, charged, tried, and acquitted of conspiracy in the 1970 armed take-over of a Marin County courtroom, in which four persons died.
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Days of RageStokely Carmichael rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party. He is
credited with coining the phrase "institutional racism“, and the label “Black Power.” In his career, he was the man at the turning point of what was previously a non-violent movement.
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Days of RageEldridge Cleaver was an early leader of the Black Panther Party, having the titles Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Panthers while a fugitive from the United States criminal justice system in Cuba and Algeria. As editor of the official Panther's newspaper, Cleaver's influence on the direction of the Party was rivaled only by founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Cleaver and Newton eventually fell out with each other, resulting in a split that weakened the party. In his book, Soul on Ice, Cleaver wrote: "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America."
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Days of RageFred Hampton was an African-American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. He was murdered while sleeping at his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Hampton's murder was chronicled in the documentary film The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) as well as an episode of the critically acclaimed documentary series Eyes on the Prize.
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Days of RageFred Hampton was an African-American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. He was murdered while sleeping at his apartment during a raid by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney's Office (SAO), in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Hampton's murder was chronicled in the documentary film The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) as well as an episode of the critically acclaimed documentary series Eyes on the Prize.
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Days of RagePatty Hearst, the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped in 1974 by a left-wing terrorist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army while she was a 19-year-old student in Berkeley, California. After being isolated and threatened with death, she became supportive of their cause, making propaganda announcements for them and taking part in bank robberies and other illegal activities.