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Article: Black Panther founder at UMF ; Bobby Seale says he wants to set the record straight about the group's work and FBI misdeeds.
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- Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)
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- November 6, 2007
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BETTY JESPERSEN Blethen Maine News Service --
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
11-06-2007
Black Panther founder at UMF ; Bobby Seale says he wants to set the record straight about the group's work and FBI misdeeds.
Byline: BETTY JESPERSEN Blethen Maine News Service --
Edition: Final
Section: Local & State
FARMINGTON --
Mention the name Bobby Seale and 40 years later, people still have a single vision of the founder of the Black Panther Party.
The shotgun-toting, fiery black man from an organization that coined the phrase "all power to the people" remains one the most recognizable symbols of the 1960s protest movement.
Middle-class America, through distortions by the FBI, feared the Panthers ...