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Arts > Photo > 20th, 21st century > USA > Jeffrey Scales
Jeffrey Henson Scales, center, when he was 14 years old, at a Black Panther Rally to free Huey Newton, a co-founder of the group who was on trial for the killing of a police officer, in San Francisco in May 1969.
Photograph: Janine Wiedel
How a Surprise Discovery of Photographs From the 1960s Meets the Moment A trove of images were found in a photographer’s family home. Now they are part of an exhibition opening next week in Harlem that captures pivotal years in the Black Panther Party. NYT Sept. 4, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/
Panther supporters at the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland waiting to attend the trial of Huey Newton, July 1968.
Photograph: Jeffrey Henson Scales
OPINION Guest essay My Teenage Years With the Black Panthers NYT Oct. 29, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/
Jeffrey Henson Scales
“This stuff dated from the late-1960s. I was around 14, a high-school freshman.
My dad was a hobbyist photographer and my mother was a painter.
Even before I turned 11, when dad gave me a Leica camera, both patiently instructed me.
That earliest footage of mine contained a mixed bag of images.
There were people and places I hoped to remember.
I photographed protest and riots in my home city of Berkeley, California.
Sly and the Family Stone and other acts that appeared at the Fillmore, across the bay in San Francisco, were represented too.
And then among it all, was this cache of 15 sleeves with negatives showing various aspects of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
The two of us, we grew up together.”
Oakland and Berkeley, Haight-Ashbury, the Castro, LA, the summer of love, women’s liberation, Vietnam, uprisings in urban ghettos.
“They were,” recalls Scales, “all of a piece.
But the Panthers were the coolest people.”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/24/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/24/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/
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