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Article: Former Black Panther Party Members Recall Struggle
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- Oakland Post
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- February 27, 1994
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S. Smith
Oakland Post
02-27-1994
Former Black Panther Party Members Recall struggle.
The two well dressed and distinguished looking women on the dais prepared to address the Saturday morning assembly at the Oakland Museum. Their graying hair and classically tailored appearance gave an air of sophistication and gentility seldom witnessed even in a place where white-gloved ladies still lunch in the Museum Cafe.
This might have been the announcement of the acquisition of a major art piece or the opening of a new gallery. Then one of the women adjusted her papers and spoke. "We want freedom, we want the power to determine the destiny of our black community, we want full employment for our ...