ebooks Slavery Days in Old Kentucky by Isaac Johnson in History

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In 1968; FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover vilified the Black Panthers as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States." That same year photographers Pirkle Jones and wife; Ruth-Marion Baruch; documented the Black Panthers for an exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Their hope was to expose the public to the Panthers as they saw them--symbols of pride and strength--rather than the way they were being portrayed in the media. Jones and Baruch were given unprecedented access to the inner circle of the Black Panther Party. At intimate meetings; family gatherings and public demonstrations; we witness; through these incredibly moving photographs; a unique crusade for dignity and self-definition. Black Panthers is a historic documentation of this fascinating movement; so challenging and controversial to our culture that it was virtually erased from established texts and American history books.