Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an independent political party in rural Mississippi, adopts the symbol of the black panther for its organization. Malcolm is taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital where he is pronounced dead on arrival. 1965Īt 3:10 P.M., just after he has begun to address an Organisation of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) rally at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, Malcolm X is shot several times a black male later identified as Talmadge Hayer (a.k.a. Both join the Afro-American Association, a black cultural organization led by Donald Warden. Huey Newton, a black militant activist student, meets Bobby Seale while attending Merritt College (Oakland, California). Oral histories, interviews, and songs related to SNCC via ibiblio SNCC web site The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC.was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities." This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South. "On Februgroup of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. Black Panthers site via California Heritage Project Revolutionary Suicide: Controlling the Myth of Huey Newton Black Panther Newspaper Collection (Maoist International Movement) 1960
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