"Bobby Seale speaks at a Black Panther Rally at Oakland's Defermery Park in 1968. On his left is Bill Brent on the left and on his right, Wilford ""Captain Crutch"" Holliday. (Photo by Stephen Shames.)"
{"Image ImageWidth": "5430", "Image ImageLength": "3684", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image Compression": "Uncompressed", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image ImageDescription": "July 28, 1968 - Oakland, California, USA: Black Panther Chairman and co-founder Bobby Seale speaks at a Free Huey rally in Defermery Park (named by the Panthers Bobby Hutton Park) in West Oakland. Left of Seale is Bill Brent, who later went to Cuba.  Right is Wilford Holiday, known as Captain Crutch. (Stephen Shames/Polaris)\n\nOn October 28, 1967, Oakland police officer John Frey was shot to death in an altercation with Huey P. Newton during a traffic stop. In the stop, Newton and backup officer Herbert Heanes also suffered gunshot wounds. Newton was convicted of voluntary manslaughter at trial, but the conviction was later overturned. At the time, Newton claimed that he had been falsely accused, leading to the \"Free Huey\" campaign. This incident gained the party even wider recognition by the radical American left. Newton was released after three years, when his conviction was reversed on appeal.\n\nAs Newton awaited trial, the Black Panther party's \"Free Huey\" campaign developed alliances with numerous individuals, students and anti-war activists, \"advancing an anti-imperialist political ideology that linked the oppression of antiwar protestors to the oppression of blacks and Vietnamese\".The \"Free Huey\" campaign attracted black power organizations, New Left groups, and other activist groups. The Black Panther Party collaborated with the Peace and Freedom Party, which sought to promote a strong antiwar and antiracist politics in opposition to the establishment democratic party. The Black Panther Party provided needed legitimacy to the Peace and Freedom Party's racial politics and in return received invaluable support for the \"Free Huey\" campaign.\n\nThe Black Panther Party was one of the most influential responses to racism and inequality in American history. The Panthers advocated armed self-defense to counter police brutality, and initiated a program of patrolling the police with guns and law books. Their enduring legacy is their programs, like Free Breakfast for Children, which helped to inspire a national movement of community organizing for economic independence, education, nutrition, and health care. Seale believed that \u201cno kid should be running around hungry in school,\u201d a simple credo that lead FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to call the breakfast program, \u201cthe greatest threat to efforts by authorities to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for.\u201d", "Image Make": "Nikon", "Image Model": "Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 8000 ED", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image PlanarConfiguration": "1", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Macintosh)", "Image DateTime": "2016:09:23 11:45:21", "Image Artist": "Stephen Shames", "Image Copyright": "\u00a92005, Stephen Shames", "Image ExifOffset": "2800", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "300", "Thumbnail YResolution": "300", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "2962", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "8944", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "750", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "500"}