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The Black Panthers were formed in California in 1966 and they played a short but important part in the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers believed that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luthe
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This page includes the 10 Point Plan of the Black Panthers. 
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. On December 4, 1969, Chicago police raided Fred Hampton’s apartment and shot and killed him in his bed. He was just 21 years old. Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid. While authorities claimed the Panthers had opened fire on the police who were there to serve a search warrant for weapons, evidence later emerged that told a very different story: that the FBI, the Cook County State’s Attorne
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The death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton on 4 December 1969, when Chicago police raided his apartment. Starts at 34:45.
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Overthrowing the crime of mixed marriages in the Deep South. The case of Loving vs. Virginia (1967).
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CBS4 is celebrating Black History Month by recognizing special people who contributed to South Florida's black history.
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One woman's experience of growing up in Jim Crow Miami.
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The Supreme Court case that tested affirmative action.
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Well, this didn't really happen, of course, but this is a decent attempt to juxtapose their views on the use of violence.
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COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic organizations deemed “subversive”.
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Some allegedly racist campaign ads. from Bush vs. Dukakis, 1988. Comments from Dukakis himself included.
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Fifty years ago this week, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairperson Stokely Carmichael made the famous call for “Black Power.” Carmichael’s speech came in the midst of the “March Against Fear,” a walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, to encourage African Americans to use their newly won right to vote. But while almost every middle and high school student learns about the Civil Rights Movement, they rarely learn about this march—or the related struggles that continued long after the Voting Rights Act.
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Adam Sanchez on the 'Long Civil Rights Movement'.
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Rodney King taking a beating from the gentlemen of the LAPD.
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Malcolm X on the difference between the House Negro and the Field Negro. The last line is the killer.