The Black Panthers were founded in 1966 by militant African-Americans, who advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in order to achieve black liberation. Some of the more prominent members of this group included Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver.
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“The First Congressional District included not only Hyde Park but far less affluent neighborhoods like Englewood and Woodlawn. [Bobby] Rush, a former leader of the Black Panthers in Chicago, made easy work of [Barack] Obama. Jesse Jackson said that Rush 'was and is an icon in the civil-rights movement' in Chicago and had established himself, first on the City Council and then in Congress. 'So this relatively new guy, moving on him, didn’t sit well,' said Jackson, who supported Rush.”
“Perhaps my impression is unfairly skewed because I had just been rereading Tom Wolfe's 'Radical Chic'—his essay about New York's rich and chic toasting the Black Panthers and listening intently to praise of cop-killing revolution in Leonard Bernstein's operatically grand apartment….”
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