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Transcript: Analysis: Historical look at the Black Panther Party
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- June 16, 2003
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NEAL CONAN
NPR Talk of the Nation
06-16-2003
Analysis: Historical look at the Black Panther Party
Host: NEAL CONAN
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
NEAL CONAN, host:
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.
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Right now, a fresh look at a brief but dramatic chapter in recent American history. In 1966 in Oakland, California, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale formed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. They quickly attracted a following primarily among young urban African-Americans who felt that the ...