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Black Panthers from Sacramento, Free Huey Rally
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-27 at 11.25.14 AM_thumb.png2023-03-27T18:28:05+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Black Panthers from Sacramento, Free Huey Rally, Bobby Hutton Memorial Park, Oakland, Calif., No. 62, Aug. 25, 1968. Photograph by Pirkle Jones.plain2023-03-27T18:28:05+00:00From PBS: "Newton had been charged with 1st degree murder, assault and kidnapping in October 1967. This brought the Black Panther Party into international prominence and made Huey a revolutionary icon during 3 years of rallies & protests by tens of thousands of people across North America to "Free Huey". As Roger points out though, once Huey was released, a new problem was created: "Yeah they freed Huey. Then Huey came out and they wanted Huey to free them and I keep trying to tell the people, I say people, that's the true power of the people, you freed me, you freed Huey, now why don't you all go ahead and free yourself? But see, they can't do that can they? They can't do that cause the people always have to create what they call a leader and a leader is everything that the people want to be but the leader is everything that the people can never be so then when the leader fails, he's gonna fail, he's just flesh and blood, he's gonna fail, when the leader fails then the whole construction of the concept of leadership fails and then it just becomes a matter of contempt. And that's when they assassinate you and then put your image on a postage stamp so they can keep lickin' you in the grave." August 35, 1968Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49