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Blood McCleary, Jorge Aponte, Janet Cyril and Jordan Ford were some of Brooklyn’s initiates. Very few were more than 25 years old; most were teens.
Lumumba Shakur headed to Harlem, and Odinga took to the Bronx. The two chapters worked together, with Shakur and Odinga as co-leaders.
In Harlem, Jamal Joseph, Dhoruba bin-Wahad, Sekyiwa Tabul, Afeni Shakur, Kathleen Cleaver, Deputy Chairman David Brothers and Sundiata Acoli participated. Zayd Shakur joined that summer and Assata Shakur in 1969.
“When King was assassinated a lot of people wondered if non-violence was really the way,” said Joseph, who began attending political education classes at 15 years old. “Then on the scene were the BPP who were talking self-defense and revolutionary change.
The BPP caught the passion of what was going on, especially here in NYC.” Joseph recalled being given a stack of books—“Autobiography of Malcolm X,” Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth,” Cleaver’s “Soul on Ice” and “Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.”
At the time, he said, “I thought you were going to arm me.”
The Black Panther replied, “Young brother, I just did. This is a class struggle for human rights, not just a race struggle for civil rights.” - via @NYAmNewshttp://amsterdamnews.com/news/2018/aug/16/new-york-black-panther-party-celebrates-50th-anniv/ …
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