When I became aware of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s, I heard that the Party adopted the black panther symbol from another organization. Over the years I picked up more pieces of the story — Stokely Carmichael’s name came up, as did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). But I didn’t try to put the pieces together. Of course, those pieces were part of one of the most important struggles of the civil rights movement, one which attracted national attention at the time, but which today is almost unknown.
The fundamental problem, not much stated in the article, is that local organizing, like in Lowndes County, and communism organizing, in places like Newark and the Lower East Side of New York, FAILED.
The fundamental problem, not much stated in the article, is that local organizing, like in Lowndes County, and communism organizing, in places like Newark and the Lower East Side of New York, FAILED.