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Independent Voices
Independent Voices is a fulltext database of alternative press newspapers and magazines published mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to African-American publications, it includes periodicals from, among others, student, LGBT, Latino/a, and Native American organizations. Like Ethnic News Watch, it's a good resource to get views of the Panthers from outside the mainstream press. It includes The Movement, a SNCC publication and articles syndicated in the Liberation News Service.
Click Search, then Advanced Search. Even here your search options are rather limited, but you can, for example, limit by date and search by author (as well as fulltext, etc.). The only way to save is to right click on a page and save that individual page as a PDF.
If you have any questions about Independent Voices, click Email Me, below the Your Footnotes, Bibliography tab.
Black Panther Party
The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture by ISBN: 1138605921Publication Date: 2018-12-21This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case studies of artist groups, including Spiral, OBAC and AfriCOBRA, who began questioning Western aesthetic traditions and created work that honored leaders, affirmed African American culture, and embraced an African lineage. Also showcased is an Oakland Museum exhibition of 1968 called "New Perspectives in Black Art," as a way to consider if Black Panther Party activities in the neighborhood might have impacted local artists' work. The concluding chapters concentrate on the relationship between selected Black Panther Party members and visual culture, focusing on how they were covered by the mainstream press, and how they self-represented to promote Party doctrine and agendas.
