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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/
us/black-panther-party-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
opinion/black-panthers-photographs.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
in-a-time-of-panthers-jeffery-henson-scales-photographs-black-history

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/24/
in-a-time-of-panthers-jeffery-henson-scales-photographs-black-history

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/
opinion/black-panthers-photographs.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/
us/black-panther-party-photos.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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