Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.
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Reconsidering the Black Panthers Through Photos
A black man helps an older African-American woman as she shops in an Oakland, Calif., supermarket. The image from 1972, by Stephen Shames, documents an initiative to protect the elderly in a crime-ridden neighborhood.
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An Interview With Former Black Panther Lynn French
The fact that the Panther Party, by the time you joined in 1968, was over two-thirds women struck me as amazing.
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