![]() The party members would do a demographic location of, say, leafleting a hundred square blocks around the church and telling people that you could come in on time and day. So, its me giving the directions and going to chapters and branches all across the country and showing party members how to get the local reverend at a church, or priest at a church, to allow them to use the church facilities say for a week or something. My method of organizing on a mass scale was to put up programs, and not only have free preventative medical health care at the actual clinics, but literally to extend a program called a Free Sickle Cell Anemia Testing Program. This is our method that this book is trying to show. SEALE: The side that’s free from distortions, particularly in this book here, it allows you to see who we are in our heyday, in the form of programs, in the form of speeches, in the form of youth in the schools, in the form of an Intercommunity Youth Institute that we had it allows you to understand the Free Preventive Health Care Clinics established all across the country, and of course these were organizing frameworks. Seale, you mention these distortions also in Seize The Time, A Lonely Rage, and in your 2006 foreword to this new photobook called The Black Panthers when you write that: “over the years, the media continually distorted facts saying that we had instigated shootouts with the police when, in fact, as we know now from Freedom of Information Act documents, the FBI worked with police departments to plan attacks on Black Panther Party offices.” My first question for you is, could you discuss the different side that this photobook The Black Panthers shows us, a side that is free from distortions? Every American owes it to himself or herself to at least understand what the Black Panthers are saying.” Mr. Unfortunately, it has been easier to read distortions in the mass media than to obtain copies of the party’s weekly radical journal and the underground student papers. ![]() Edgar Hoover’s orders to smash and destroy the Black Panther Party.”įRASER: In a 1970 book, edited by Philip Foner called The Black Panthers Speak, he has an introduction where he writes: “There has been no lack of information as to programs, policies and objectives of the Black Panther Party. “The FBI was working with the police department to carry out J. ![]()
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