‘I was one of the few people able to document it’: shooting the Black Panthers – in pictures

Free Huey, Defermery Park, Oakland, California, 12 November 1969

Black Panthers founder Huey P Newton claimed that he had been falsely accused, leading to the ‘Free Huey’ campaign, which then developed alliances with numerous individuals, students and anti-war activists, ‘advancing an anti-imperialist political ideology that linked the oppression of antiwar protesters to the oppression of blacks and Vietnamese’. This incident gained the party even wider recognition by the radical American left. Newton was released after three years, when his conviction was reversed on appeal