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Transcript: Profile: Photographic exhibit on the Black Panther Party
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- Tavis Smiley (NPR)
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- July 19, 2004
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TAVIS SMILEY
Tavis Smiley (NPR)
07-19-2004
Profile: Photographic exhibit on the Black Panther Party
Host: TAVIS SMILEY
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM
TAVIS SMILEY, host:
From NPR in Los Angeles, I'm Tavis Smiley.
Civil rights legislation codified into law 40 years ago largely resulted from a non-violent movement. But in subsequent years, a new movement was born based on armed self-defense. The Black Panther Party was declared by the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover to be the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States. But was this an accurate picture? Our own Phillip Martin examines the portrayal of the Black Panthers in the '60s and now.
PHILLIP MARTIN reporting:
When Jan Williamson agreed ...