RAT Subterranean News, issue 15, October 29-November 18, 1970
New Left
RAT Subterranean News was published in New York, starting in March of 1968 and was edited by Jeff Shero, Alice Embree and Gary Thiher, who had come North from Austin, Texas, where they worked on The Rag, another important underground paper. Whereas the East Village Other represented the counterculture point of view, RAT had a left political orientation. This issue covers a wide range of topics, including baking bread; a critique of the Weather Underground; Angela Davis; George Jackson; Quebec independence; working-class white women; American "concentration camps"; abortion; welfare rights; the Young Lords; the West Side Women's Center; a report from Asia; Black Power poetry.
RAT Subterranean News
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
October 29-November 18, 1970
underground press
The Black Panther, January 9, 1971
Black Power
In this January 9, 1971 issue of The Black Panther, articles include: a statement of support for the National Liberation Front in Vietnam in the name of international solidarity; a map of the U.S. showing incidents of "Guerilla Acts of Sabotage and Terrorism”; an open letter to "revolutionary children" highlighting the activism and history of the Black Panther Party; coverage of the trial of Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale, including articles of support from allies of the Black Panthers and a letter from Huggins herself on "How to Love During a Revolution”; black draft resistance; the New York 21 case; the Jonathan Jackson Commune; the case of Monk Teba; the Juan Farina Defense Committee; Chicago Free Busing Program; G.I. Rights; police brutality in Baltimore, Toledo and Las Vegas; a U.N. Report on racism in the U.S.; a Solidarity Activities Calendar; international news shorts; the Ten Point Program; a statement of party rules; advertisements for The Lumpen, sponsored by the Chicano Revolutionary Party; and, artwork by Emory Douglas.
The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
January 9, 1971
underground press
The Black Panther Party and the Case of the New York 21
Black Panther Party
Published at the height of the Cold War, this booklet links the anticommunist politics of local, state, and federal authorities on the political oppression of U.S. citizens, specifically among radical leftist groups such as the White Panthers and the Black Panthers. Detailing the trial of the New York 21, or Panther 21, this booklet seeks to raise public awareness of police and federal government corruption and the ways law enforcement tried to link the twenty-one Black Panther Party members to domestic terrorism. The Panther 21 trial resulted in a mass acquittal with the trial lasting between the years 1969 and 1971. Themes discussed in this booklet include the ghettoization of U.S. cities in the North, black militant ideology, political imprisonment, and the legacies of McCarthyism in FBI surveillance and suppression of organizations perceived as radical in the late-1960s and early-1970s.
Members of the Charter Group for a Pledge of Conscience
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1969
booklet
"Jesus Wept, Peter Slept, John Fell Out the Back Door Step"
Black Panther Party
This article includes a poem about Jesus meeting a member of the Black Panther Party (Afeni Shakur) and being turned on to the revolution.
Black Panther Party (Afeni Shakur)
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
July 4, 1970
newsprint
article
"Holiness"
Black Panther Party
This poem, written by imprisoned Black Panther Party member, Afeni Shakur, explores the hypocrisy of U.S. society and conjure a revolutionary Jesus who is in solidarity with the Black Panther Party.
Afeni Shakur
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1970
newsprint
poem