Looking Back at the Black Panther Movement
Ruth Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones/Courtesy 18th Street Arts Center
A father and son attend a rally to free Panther leader Huey P. Newton, 1968.
Ruth Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones/Courtesy 18th Street Arts Center
A father and son attend a rally to free Panther leader Huey P. Newton, 1968.
In the 1960s, the Black Panther Party formed based on the idea of armed self-defense. At the time, FBI officials and media reports portrayed the Panthers as dangerous militants. Now, a new Santa Monica, Calif., exhibit of photographs from the 1960s examines the Panthers' image then and now. Senior editor Phillip Martin reports.
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