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The New
Haven Museum, The Amistad Committee Inc., and the Connecticut Freedom
Trail Committee presented a panel discussion in October 2014 on “The Black Panther
Party of Connecticut,” featuring Dr. Jamie Wilson, associate professor
of history at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts, and author
of The Black Panther Party of Connecticut (2014), Civil Rights Movement (2013), and Building a Healthy Black Harlem (2009). The
panel also included Attorney John Williams, one of the defense
attorneys in the murder prosecution of the local and national leadership
of the Black Panther Party (BPP), the so-called New Haven Nine, and Ann
Froines, retired professor of women’s studies at the University of
Massachusetts, Boston, founding member of the United Front for Panther
Defense, and an organizer of the New Haven May Day rally in 1970. The
free event was funded by the Connecticut Department of Culture and
Tourism. |
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