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WE WILL NOT SIT

BACK AND LET THE

FASCIST MURDER

CHAIRMAN BOBBY IN

THE ELECTRIC CHAIR! 

A people who have suffered so much for

so long at hands of a racist society must

draw the line somewhere. . . . the black

communities of America must rise

up as one man to halt the progression

 of a trend that leads inevitably to their total

 destruction.

They came down on

us because we had a

grass-roots, real people's

 revolution, complete

with the programs, com-

plete with the unity,

complete with the

working coalitions,

where we crossed

 racial lines.

We don't hate nobody

because of their color.

 We hate oppression!-

 Bobby Seale

 Seale, with Huey Newton, founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. After serving in the Air Force, Seale attended Oakland's Merritt College and was moved to radicalism after hearing Malcolm X speak. Seale and Newton formed the Black Panthers as an alternative to the nonviolent civil rights movement. The Panthers called on all blacks to arm themselves for the liberation struggle. The militant party engaged in several high-profile, violent confrontations with police. Seale was one of the “Chicago Eight” charged and convicted of conspiracy to violently disrupt the Democratic National Convention of 1968 (conviction later overturned) and was a codefendant in a Connecticut case charging murder of Alex Rackley, an alleged informer on the party. He was acquitted in 1971. That same year he abandoned militancy and endorsed a nonviolent strategy that focused on providing community services to African Americans.