![]() While their furious passage was marked by death, destruction and government sabotage, the Panthers left an instructive legacy for anyone who dares to challenge the system. ![]() The late 1960s, when the Panthers captured the imagination of the nation's youth, was a time of regulation. The real story-the whole story-was both more and less heroic. One of the young men held a large law book in his hand…This was the Black Panther Party in ideal action. The young men did not say a word as the police officers watched them nervously, their eyes fixed on the shotguns. The young men surrounded two white police officers who had accosted a black man and had him spread-eagled against a building. A crowd of onlookers gawked from the sidewalk as four young black men dressed in black leather jackets and berets leaped from a Volkswagen, each of them wielding shotguns with bandoliers strapped across their bodies. ![]()
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