This week on From the Vault we present a recording of H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael from the Free Huey P. Newton rally at the Oakland Auditorium on February 17, 1968. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, was arrested for the alleged killing of a police officer in Oakland California under highly controversial circumstances, and following this rally he would be convicted of voluntary manslaughter in September, 1968. The charges would later be reversed by the California Supreme Court, and eventually Newton was released as a free man.
In this recording, H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael implore the audience to organize in solidarity against laws that discriminate against the black community.
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