![]() ![]() Seale attended Berkeley High School, then dropped out in 1955 and joined the United States Air Force. After moving around Texas, first to Dallas, then to San Antonio, and Port Arthur, Seale's family relocated to Codornices Village in Berkeley, California, during the Great Migration when he was eight years old. ![]() The Seale family lived in poverty during most of his early life. Newton, and Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers (with Stephen Shames).īobby Seale was born in Liberty, Texas, to George Seale, a carpenter, and Thelma Seale (née Traylor), a homemaker. Seale's books include A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. The jury was unable to reach a verdict in Seale's trial, and the charges were eventually dropped. ![]() Panther George Sams, Jr., testified that Seale had ordered him to kill Rackley. In 1970, while in prison, Seale was charged and tried as part of the New Haven Black Panther trials over the torture and murder of Alex Rackley, whom the Black Panther Party had suspected of being a police informer. The contempt sentence was reversed on appeal. Though he was never convicted in the case, Seale was sentenced by Judge Hoffman to four years for criminal contempt of court. After his case was severed, the government declined to retry him on the conspiracy charges. Seale's case was severed from the other defendants, turning the "Chicago Eight" into the "Chicago Seven". Seale's appearance in the trial was widely publicized and Seale was bound and gagged for his appearances in court more than a month into the trial for what Judge Julius Hoffman said were disruptions. Seale was one of the eight people charged by the US federal government with conspiracy charges related to anti- Vietnam War protests in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Founded as the "Black Panther Party for Self-Defense", the Party's main practice was monitoring police activities and challenging police brutality in Black communities, first in Oakland, California, and later in cities throughout the United States. Seale is widely known for co-founding the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Huey P. Newton (1941–89) set the political stage for events that would quickly place him and the Panthers at the forefront of the African American liberation movement for the next twenty years.Robert George Seale (born Octo) is an American engineer, political activist and author. Additionally, Newton served as the Party’s chief intellectual engine, conversing with world leaders such as Yasser Arafat, Chinese premier Chou Enlai, and Mozambique president Samora Moises Machel, among others.īeginning with his founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966, Huey P. Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Geronimo Pratt all came to international prominence through Newton’s groundbreaking political activism. Editors Hilliard and Weise also include never-before-published writings from the Black Panther Party archives and Newton’s private collection, including articles on President Nixon, prison martyr George Jackson, Pan-Africanism, affirmative action, and the author’s only written account of his political exile in Cuba in the mid-1970s. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts from Newton’s books ( Revolutionary Suicide, To Die for the People, In Search of Common Ground, and War Against the Panthers) ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, African Americans and armed self-defense, Eldridge Cleaver’s controversial expulsion from the Party, FBI infiltration of civil rights groups, the Vietnam War, and the burgeoning feminist movement. The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, now in a new edition with a new introduction by Elaine Brown.
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