Everything starts on May 5th with a peaceful demonstration. Several thousand students march in the city center shouting “Free our Paris comrades”. In the days that follow,...
On May 22, 1969, police raided the New Haven Black Panther headquarters and arrested a number of local Panthers, including BPP Chairman Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins,...
In March 1970, Chairman Bobby Seale was extradited to Connecticut. The trials for Bobby Seale and the other Panther defendants was set for the summer of 1970. New Haven...
On April 23rd, Yale President Kingman Brewster led a faculty meeting at which academic “expectations” were suspended for the rest of the semester.
His remarks at the meeting...
The rally protesting the New Haven Black Panther Trials kicked off at noon on May Day (May 1, 1970), with 15,000-20,000 protesters gathering on the New Haven Green.
The rally...
