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I had no involvement with any of the groups that were listed, but I am in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Free Lance-Star July 10, 1999 Farmer Article  

In this article that came out after my death, an outline of my life is given. The article begins on the front page and continues onto page A3. Above this…

"One Monday morning Huey Newton called me up and said, "Bobby, come over to the house right quick." I went over to the house. Huey showed me the papers. He said, "Look here, Mulford is up in the legislature now, trying to get a bill passed against us. We don't care about laws anyway, because the laws they make don't serve us at all. He's probably making a law to serve the power structure. He's trying to get some kind of law passed against us." He said, "I've been thinking. Remember when I…

"In 1968 Seale was one of the radicals charged with conspiring to incite riots around the Democratic Party Convention which endorsed Hubert Humphrey as its presidential candidate to take on Richard Nixon. Seale's fellow defendants included…

My goal in one sentence? My goal was to protect my fellow African Americans from all the hate and racism from the white people and give them hope for the future  

My friend Huey Newton and I founded the Black Panther Group that "The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense)

was an African-American revolutionary leftist organization active in the United

States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and

international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and

in U.S. politics of the 1960s and 70s. The group's "provocative rhetoric,

militant posture,…

I was a mechanic in my early years but then I started to become active in the Civil Rights movement I joined the group called The Black Panther. The group was to protect our own from racism and we also ran free medical clinics and gave free food to school children. President Hoover said our Group was "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country."

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer."  

I went to Berkeley high school and after the I joined the Air Force, and when I got out of that I went to Merritt College in Oakland, California. While I was a  student there Malcolm X spoke at a public meeting and I was Influenced by what i heard, I  joined the Afro-American Association and became active in the Civil Rights  movement.

"A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke   

"Oh Freedom" by Shirley Verrett

A letter from myself to President John F. Kennedy about the Freedom Ride that was to take place. The letter includes additional information as well and dates back to April 26, 1961.

The photo album containing the documents     

The original source

Champion of Civil Rights Judge John Minor Wisdom by Joel William Friedman

The Rhinelander Daily News

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"Laws just changed. After the Emmett Till case, blacks, well, like the fear starting leaving, said, they're going to kill us anyway. When they found out that the casket was open here, they was in trouble. So they wanted to find out, why, who?" (Hudson-Weems, 138).

Hudson-Weems, Clenora. Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement. Bloomington, Indiana : Author House, 2006. Print.

I played a major role in deciding what legal strategy should be used in civil right cases. My work helped convince judges to rule for the NAACP. I set out to create a law school that trained African American lawyers dedicated to winning equal rights. I was responsible for inspiring dozens of lawyers to spend their careers working for civil rights.  Altman, Susan, and Susan Altman. Extraordinary African- Americans. Canada: Children's Press, 2001. Print. (page…