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White Panther Party
This communiqué, written by Genie Plamondon, explores the changing politics of the White Panther Party during the late-1960s.
Genie Plamondon joined the White Panther Party in the summer of 1967. An organizer and activist, Plamondon was in charge of communications between WPP chapters, as well as chapter training, an organizer of the Red Star Sisters, and also held a leadership position as “Minister of Foreign Affairs” in the organization. During the late-1960s, she traveled overseas to Vietnam as a civilian observer and eyewitness and attended Woodstock to promote the Free John Sinclair campaign.
White Panther Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1969
leaflet
Ten-Point Program of the White Panther Party
White Anti-Racism
Founded in 1968 by Pun Plamondon, Leni Sinclair, and John Sinclair as a response to Huey P. Newton’s call for separate, white, anti-racist groups in support of the Black Panther Party, the White Panthers served as a countercultural group dedicated to "cultural revolution." The group was most active in Detroit, Michigan, and was connected with the porto-punk band, MC5. Though a white anti-racist organization, the White Panthers worked with a variety of other groups in what was known as the Rainbow Coalition.
The Red Star Sisters was the name given to women in the
White Panther Party. In a 1970 statement, the Red Star Sisters wrote, "The Red Star is a universal symbol of COMMUNEism, of living and working together, coming together, a symbol of righteous revolution and love for ALL of humanity. We, the sisters of the White Panther Party, take the Red Star as the symbol of our own liberation, and align I ourselves with all oppressed people on the planet."
This artifact includes the White Panther's adaptation of the Black Panther Party's famous Ten-Point Program.
White Panther Party and Red Star Sisters
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1970
mimeograph
leaflet
New Nation
Counterculture
This flyer by the White Panther Party and Red Star Sisters encourages the radical redefinition of identity as a key to revolution. It also advertises a screening of several Newsreel films on the Boston University campus.
White Panther Party and Red Star Sisters
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
flyer