![]() ![]() Hills keep being climbed and issues keep being confronted, like equity and police brutality. In some cases, it is surreal as in lynching being outlawed only last year, in 2020. ![]() Walker and the equally engaging art by Marcus Kwame Anderson bring history to life for the reader through a steadily paced narrative, informative profiles, and numerous examples of the interconnections between then and now. But they had the full attention of the press and so Seale’s protest was not in vain. They were immediately disarmed and escorted out. Seale and his group, meaning to sit in the public assembly chamber, ended up opening a door that placed them on the main floor. ![]() ![]() The goal was to act as representatives of their organization, complete with their militaristic attire and guns, and protest a proposed bill that would outlaw carrying loaded firearms in public, a direct response designed to disarm the Black Panther Party. One scene in this book that provides a window into the making of the Black Panther Party is when a group of members led by Seale decided to voice their concerns at the state capitol in Sacramento. September 27, 1966: 16-year-old Matthew “Peanut” Johnson shot in back and killed by police setting off the Hunters Point Uprising. ![]()
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