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History > USA > Civil rights > Black Power > 1960s-1980s
White Panther Party
Members of the White Panther party in 1970 in front of their headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Photograph: Leni Sinclair Getty
Detroit’s star activist adds BLM rally to her 50 years of rebellion
Leni Sinclair was at the heart of the city’s radical music and politics in the 1960s.
Now 80, she reflects on today’s struggle for equality and social change G Sun 16 Aug 2020 07.05 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/
White Panther Marsha Rabideaux with the Gary Grimshaw-designed logo.
Photograph: Leni Sinclair
Detroit’s star activist adds BLM rally to her 50 years of rebellion Leni Sinclair was at the heart of the city’s radical music and politics in the 1960s. Now 80, she reflects on today’s struggle for equality and social change G Sun 16 Aug 2020 07.05 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/
White Panther Party
Together with her husband, John Sinclair, the native-American activist Lawrence “Pun” Plamondon and the Detroit band the MC5, their roadies and elements from the artists’ workshop, Sinclair started the White Panthers without approval from Newton and co-founder Bobby Seale.
They had heard the panthers didn’t want white people involved but they “should start their own organisation if they want to help us”.
“We were already organising white people who wanted change, so we called ourselves the White Panthers,” Sinclair recalls.
The group defined itself with a 10-point plan that called for “fighting for a clean planet and the freeing of political prisoners”, *with additional aims of “rock ’n’roll, dope, sex in the streets and the abolishing of capitalism”.
The Black Panthers, too, were unimpressed – “they called us psychedelic clowns,” says Sinclair – at least until the group started distributing the Black Panther newsletter in south-east Detroit.
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Sinclair remembers being in Detroit in 1967 when the city was consumed by anti-racist protests that left 43 dead, over 1,000 injured, more than 7,000 arrested and 2,000 buildings destroyed over three days.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/
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