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The Black Panther Party’s newspaper article covers the 1971 acquittal on conspiracy charges for fellow members Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale. In the article, BPP members also address issues like police brutality, urban poverty and political prisoners.

The article, written by Larry Neal, talks about the Black Arts Movement in depth: the beauty, the pain, the struggle and progress. Neal also talks about Black power, Black nationalism and the Black aesthetic.

After a classmate died in Vietnam, a group of Black community members wrote and distributed this leaflet encouraging “Negro boys” to avoid the draft.

In her speech, Davis calls the people to deeply reflect about American patriotism, the lie that is rooted within this concept. She calls people to make the connection between the Vietnam war, the oppression of Black and Brown people and the exploitation of white workers in the United States.

Howard Zinn calls for an end to the police brutality Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) volunteers experience in Mississippi.

Wheatley’s letter explains her reasoning for emancipation using the rhetoric of the American Revolution and Biblical references.