55 years ago African Americans were making historic gains in civil rights. But much work was still to be done.
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That year, 1966, Bobby Seale and his longtime friend Huey Newton created a new organization they called the Black Panther Party.
In 1968 Seal made a name for himself during anti-Vietnam War protests outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
It was not his first run-in with the law and it would not be his last.
In the early 1970s Seale wrote a book about the Black Panther Party, called Seize the Time. After going out of print for several years, it was republished in 1991. And that’s what I met him.
So here now, from 1991, Bobby Seale.
Bobby Seale is 84 now. Since 2013, Seale has been seeking to produce a screenplay he wrote based on Seize the Time.
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