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The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History

The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History comes to the Odegaard Undergraduate Library coinciding with the spring 2008 celebration of forty years of diversity at the University of Washington. This traveling photographic exhibition consists of 47 contemporary prints. The photographs are the work of Stephen Shames who, from 1967 to 1973, had unprecedented access to the legendary Black Panther Party for Self Defense (founded in 1966). Shames’s photographs capture not only the public face of the Party—street demonstrations, protests, and militant armed posturing—but also unscripted behind-the-scenes moments, from private meetings held in the Party headquarters, to Bobby Seale at work on his mayoral campaign in Oakland, California. In Seattle, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense established a chapter in the spring of 1968, one of the first to be created outside of California.

 

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When Words Were Not Enough,
Panel Discussion

A panel program featuring Seattle activist and co-founder of the Seattle Black Panther Party Chapter Aaron Dixon, King County councilman Larry Gossett, and current UW Vice President and Vice Provost for Minority Affairs and Diversity Sheila Edwards Lange.

 

 

For more information, please contact Stephanie Gardner | phone: 206.685.0518
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