Panther in the Senate?
Aaron Dixon, co-founder of the Seattle Black Panther Party, is running for the United States Senate.
In preparation for what could be a very interesting election year, you might want to peruse the photographs and interviews with Dixon on UW History professor Jim Gregory‘s Seattle Civil Rights & Labor History project. (Videos in WMV format, Mac users can get the player here.) There’s a whole trove of information on the origins, development, and impact of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party — don’t miss the historical photographs — example above — of Panther activities at Garfield High School and the steps of the capitol in Olympia.
