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Article: Black Panther Party was Cal State Sacramento professor's haven, vice
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- February 27, 2008
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Adina Zerwig
University Wire
02-27-2008
(The State Hornet) (UWIRE) SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- It was the summer of 1968, a time of political and social unrest.
War was raging in Vietnam and Martin Luther King, Jr. had just been assassinated.
It was this summer that California State University at Sacramento professor Stan Oden said shaped his outlook on the world and raised his "political consciousness" for the rest of his life.
After King's death Oden said he felt like the civil rights movement was coming to an end. Oden, one of only 40 black students at the University of California at Davis, was living in Oakland, Calif., working a summer job. It was in Oakland, The Black Panther Party's ...