Bobby Seale
Bobby Seale is an American political activist and author. In 1966, he co-founded the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Huey P. Newton. Seale was one of the Chicago Eight charged by the US federal government with conspiracy charges related to anti-Vietnam War protests.
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Bobby Seale is an American political activist and author. In 1966, he co-founded the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Huey P. Newton. Seale was one of the Chicago Eight charged by the US federal government with conspiracy charges related to anti-Vietnam War protests in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He was infamously ordered by the Judge, Julius Hoffman, to appear in court bound and gagged. In 1970, while in prison, he was charged and put on trial in the New Haven Black Panther trials over the torture and murder of police informer Alex Rackley. The jury was unable to reach a verdict in Seale’s trial, and the charges were eventually dropped. His books include A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panthers and Huey. P. Newton, and Power to the People: The World of The Black Panthers. He was born in Liberty, Texas to George Seale,. and Thelma Seale, a homemaker. He is married to Artie Seale and has a son, Malik Nkrumah Stagolee Seale. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife, Artie, and their son Malik. He has a daughter, Malia, and a son-in-law, Michael Seale who lives in New York City.
He also has a step-son, Michael, who is also a political activist. He and his wife have two children, Michael and Malia Seale Jr., who are both active in civil rights and anti-war causes. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his family. He used to work as a sheet metal mechanic for various aerospace plants while studying for his high school diploma at night. In June 1966, Seale began working at the North Oakland Neighborhood Anti-Poverty Center in their summer youth program. While working in the program, he met Bobby Hutton, the first member of theBlack Panther Party. He then went on to found the Soul Students Advisory Council, which was organized to help develop a college campus group that would help develop the black community in a revolutionary fashion. He described the organization as an organization that represents black people and white radicals to this and understand that many white radicals relate to this group. He said the group are most readily identified with the Party; the aim of which was to organize the community and express their desires and needs in order to resist the racist system.
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