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Patron of the Ubuntu House, Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Winnie and Nelson Mandela


Centered around Zindzi Mandela in our Ubuntu House we are celebrating the humanity we share across all artificial ethnic, religious, sexual, and national borders



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1987 - Before the show in Boston College



Often students only needed such advertising when I returned to campusses



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1991 - Even my 10th show here in Stanford U. was packed in the biggest auditorium



1975 Raleigh, NC - Again fighting with Angela Davis about the ideas in the show



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1987 - Talking with James Baldwin all night after he saw the 5-hour show



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1991 NYC - Between campus lectures I spent the nights with the homeless



1985 - I present my show outdoor to support the Divestment boycott of Columbia Univ.


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1978 - With my co-worker Tony Harris in Oslo Concert House



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1974 - Bartow, FL. Charles Smith’s hands



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Historical photo of police dogs against blacks in Birmingham, AL



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1973 - Natchez, MS - My servant Earline Gaynes - and later lifelong friend



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1974 - rural Elizabethtown NC


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2004 - rural Arkansas



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1996 - cotton picker in rural Selma, AL


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1975 - eastern Meridian, MS - today a shopping mall



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Giving Virginia Pate my book in 1978

 


Last visit to Virginia in hospital in 2012




Virginia trying to strangulate the Ku Klux Klan leader Jeff Berry in 2005

 


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Photo of Virginia Pate and me taken by Anita Roddick in 1994




Before the PC genealogy programs came it was hard to keep up with the book’s families



From the struggle to free the Angola 3

 


Anita Roddick in 1994 with Virginia’s niece, Virginia Honore, married to a prison guard

 


Bertha in 1994 after her release writing to her twin brother in Angola

 



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1974 - original slave cabin on plantation, SC


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2012 - Old man with cell phone in his shack, Perry County, AL


2009 - St. Francisville, LA - 98-year old blind woman

 


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2012 - Preacher returning home from church, Perry County, AL


2012 - Preacher relaxing in his shack after church, Perry County, AL



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1994 - Anita Roddick in Bullock County, AL



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1975 - with Joan Little, Raleigh, NC


1975 - Angela Davis in Oakland, CA



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1974 - Plainfield, NJ - Edwina’s family in 2005 visited me in Denmark


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Mosel and children 1973 – 5-year-old Gwen to the right at TV. They always had TV.


Lefus on Danish TV in 1992


From left Kenny, Gwen with book, Rene, Betty Jean and Mosel in 1978.


Lefus died March 17, 2004, 77 years old. I saw Mosel shortly before her death in 2008.

 

Gwen with the book in 2003. As a lab technician she mails me about the family.


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When I last saw Lefus in 2003 he had stopped drinking.


Lefus became world famous in 1992



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1975 - Bullock County, AL (Mary’s grandfather 102 years old, killed wife shortly after)


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Starving man in Pahokee, FL in 1990 less than an hour away from the millionaires on the right in Palm Beach


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1984 - private party with B.B. King hired to play in Houston

1974 - millionaires in Palm Beach, FL

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2009 - Harlem, NY - during Financial Crisis


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1971 - NY. - This bank E. F. Hutton & Co. merged with Lehman Brothers and caused the financial crisis

 

 


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1974 - NYC - You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly


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Mary at night in her shack on the forest backroads in Bullock County, 1974


My departure from Mary and John



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Mary dressed up for church in 1974


Mary did not have the same trust in people as me


Mary at her house after the firebombing



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10-year-old John and I always shared the bed in the old shack. 1975


Mary and her new“boyfriend” from Florida 1984


Mary and her friend Bertha with her boyfriend 1984


The violent veteran always threatened with his guns. 1978


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Mary with her new shack and still untilled piece of land in 1978


I am soaking wet picking peas with Mary in 1986. Photo by another field worker



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Mary in a relaxing moment after a hard day’s work in 1988



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John with pregnant Debra the year before she was murdered. 1990


“Two acres and a (Danish) mule” in 1984


Mary always ready with her guns to protect us. 1994



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Mary 47 years old in 1994


Mary showing Anita Roddick the hats and quilts she makes 1994


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John still in severe pain a few days after the hurricane in 2011


Showing Klan leader Jeff Berry her new garden in the projects 2005


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Mary 42-years old in 1989 

Saying grace before our meals. 1991

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Our liberated shack with my posters after we kicked her white sugar daddies out in 1985


Helping Mary with her blocked arteries and oxygen hoses in 2009




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The lynching in 1981 of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama. Ku Klux Klan members kidnapped at gunpoint a randomly chosen 19-year-old college student on a city street “to show Klan strength in Alabama”. Next morning his body was found hung by the neck in a black neighborhood. One of the Klansmen, James Knowles, was later sent to the electric chair. Morris Dees from the Southern Poverty Law Center relates how the audience wept as the confessed lyncher told how Michael begged for his life while Klansmen prepared the noose for his neck. Police photo



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1991 - Woody the night I picked him up

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1996 - swamps, LA

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1975 - Tupper home, Washington, GA


1975 - Tupper Plantation home, Washington, GA


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1975 - Phila, MS. Rachel here was raped and murdered when 14


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1975 - Philadelphia, MS. Carl at right became a preacher, his brother spent life in prison

 

 

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1974 - Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, FL


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1973 - Angola prison, Tunica, LA

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Historical picture of chain gangs


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1974 Palm Beach, FL - Beggar among millionaires

1974 - Palm Beach, FL with Bill Gandall


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2002 - Butler, IN. Helping Pamela to clean up the mess


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2002 - My first Sunday dinner with Grand Dragon Jean and Dennis


2005 - Grand Dragon Jean outside her home


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Klan leader’s granddaughter swept in the symbols of hate


The parrots talking foul language of hate


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2003 - Love between a Nazi and a KKK

2003 - Wally while he to the regret of Jeff had taken over the KKK to spread hate

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2002 - Klan leader’s granddaughter being taught

2003 - Black and white love in the Ku Klux Klan

 

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Jeff is the only KKK-leader ever to march in Manhattan as seen here.


So why not try to appease such a provocative Klan leader?

 

An example from my time as official web designer for the Ku Klux Klan


The Klan leader on the road selling my anti-racist book



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We spent a whole day driving to see Jeff in the prison where the Klan leader wanted to impress his many new black friends with Rikke.


The Klan leader with Virginia and Howard known from “Dead man walking”


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I drove 24 hours with the klan leader to show him the Civil Rights monument in Montgomery with the 41 names of people killed by Klan violence


With Jeff, now paralized and blind for life.



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Robert Moore at our release party for the two Klan members after their 5 years in prison for drugs.



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The way Robert Moore appear in books about the KKK


Scary on the outside, but always look for what people contain in their hearts


Sometimes it is a little hard to embrace my new friends….



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Nancy after she had slimmed down


Justin admiring his father with hail salutes


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2015 - 10 years after I wed Robert to his fifth wife with invited Klan sympatizers


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When Robert confessed to me about his lynching of a black man

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Embedding with the Klan. Raine in 2005

The feminist klan member with her books on feminism and gay liberation



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Raine and Billy presenting their black and white weasel harmony, but they apologized for taking me to a Chinese restaurant, their favorite food.



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Scot Belk when I met him in the Klan rally

The movie about Scot Belk


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After the murder attempt Raine armed herself heavely afraid of a new attack


but she is proud to get her job back working for the blacks in prison.


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Virgil Griffin in 1982 at a rally


Virgil Griffin when I met him in 2005



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My date Alfrida - friend of Sandy - whom Virgil Griffin’s Klan group murdered


My walk with Virgil Griffin where he opened his heart to me



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Woody the night I picked him up in 1991 after my lecture in U. of Houston



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Angel waving good bye to us from the trailer


John demonstrating how he twisted the knife in the black man



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John demonstrating how he twisted the knife in the black man


John showing me some of his gun collection on children’s bed



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Family photo of Johns parents, Rose and Vincent



The crocodile infested swamps John and Connie lived in



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Connie beating up two-year-old Angel


The mistreated Angel. Was she looking for help?


Connie whipping the children



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7-year-old Natasha on the day she proudly confessed to having crushed the head of a black boy



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The “Bible of racism research” inspiring Johnson to enact his civil rights laws

Angel with her beloved new playmate



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Angel mistreated by Connie, who was herself mistreated by her father to the right


Nothing left of this beautiful young man in prison 5 years after


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Rose showing her picture of her son Sammy in prison to Rikke Marott


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9-year-old Angel with her new sister Sally in 2003


Angel with letters to her mom about being a better child


16-year-old Natasha loved Rikke Marott


With Natasha in 2003 shortly before she escaped from her father



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John showing how the lawn got red from blood in 2009


John with his stepson and grandchild Connie showing the guns he used for the killing the night before



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John with Natasha’s youngest dumped child


Angel at two with her uncle Woody who later raped her



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With Nastasha during our terapeutic conversation in 2012


Natasha with her crazy meth cooking friends in “the hole” same evening


Natasha and Angel in family photo


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Natasha and friends in the late night bar

Drinking Tequila “shots” from Natasha’s breasts

Carrying Natasha home at 5 in the morning



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Angel pregnant with her temporary husband in 2012



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Connie beating up Angel - “the bad one” - in 1996



Pregnant Angel happy in home of her parents in law 2012


Divorced and alone with two children and Jacob tattoo 2018



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1987 - I am speaking in Tufts university, MA


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1986 - 5-6 million holding hands across America as part of the “We are the World” campaign


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1973 - flooding in the delta around Greenwood, MS



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2009 - Baton Rouge, LA - same people from the shacks on left with my book



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1973 - general Westmoreland in Charleston, SC


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1978 - NYC. Revisit to Marisol Escobar and her fish to give her my book



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1973 - My love sight of NYC each time I came hitchhiking up from the south

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1974 - Vanessa Guider here later committed suicide jumping from window


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1986 - Philadelphia, PA. Project next to the freeway and ESSO oil refinery

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1973 - Jackson, MI - Orline and children



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1971 - Chris, Aaron and Jerry in Detroit


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1975 - Oakland, CA. Black Panther with Huey Newton photo



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1973 - Greensboro, NC - “The beauty and the beast” I always called this photo of Baggie and Nixon during his Watergate scandal

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1975 - Philadelphia; MS. Leonora; daughter of my ex-wife’s school friend

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1973 - Hartford, CT - My girlfriend Leslie


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Black statue National Museum



Black clock National Museum



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1986 - restaurants throughout the South

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White colonizer carried by Africans

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2002 NY - White man with black chauffeur after attending the show "Les Miserables" on Broadway, NY


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1975 - Palo Alto, CA – Waitress serving on mountain ranch of the Pabst family


1975 - Palo Alto, CA - Mrs. Pabst and daughter on their mountain ranch



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1969 - My campaign to boycott ESSO



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Boy showing where his family member was killed - 1975 SF


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1974 - Washington, NC. Robert in school


1974 - Washington, NC. Robert at home



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2009 - High school prom in Natchez, MS

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1973 - Baltimore. Ms. Willie after our Thanksgiving dinner


1973 - Baltimore. Ms. Willie in her living room


2021 - rural NC. Ms. Willie 72 years old.

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1975 - Tenderloin, SF. - Transgender party


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1975 - SF. Transgender father’s birthday for her son

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1973 – Geegurtha working in the Drug Action Council


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1973 - With Geegurtha in Greensboro, NC


2005 – With Geegurtha in Atlanta 32 years after


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1973 - With daughter Natasha – born an addict - in Greensboro, NC

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1989 - Harlem, NY. ”Hey Dude. Let’s stop killing each other”

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1995 - Queens, NY - Catharine and husband two months before her murder

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1973 - Jersey City, NJ with World Trade Center behind

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The survivors in Attica: (Photo: New York State Police)

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1991 - Washington, DC. "Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate." Martin Luther King


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1973 - Harlem, NY. Communist Party Vice President candidate Jarvis Tyner


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1973 - Zebulon, NC. Caroline was later murdered.


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1975 - Philadelphia, MS. Hands of my father-in-law, Rev. Jake Rush


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2003 - Church of my father-in-law, Rev. Jake Rush


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1974 - Our wedding in City Hall, NY (with the baby of the South African consul).


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1975 - Annie in the Tenderloin, San Francisco


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2004 - Phil. MS - Revisiting Annie’s family throughout my life.


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1975 - Annie in the Tenderloin, San Francisco


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1974 - NYC. Homeless outside church

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1974 – Beggar in Wall Street


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1974 - Richmond, VA. Plain clothes cop checking me


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1971 - Oakland, CA. Chairman Huy P. Newton


Later BPP Chairman Elaine Brown who sings the last song in this book


1973 - Baltimore. BPP Free Breakfast Program


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Henry and Ilane at poster of Huey P. Newton


1974 -David Dubois in BPP headquarter in Oakland


1974 -Emory Douglass in BPP headquarter in Oakland



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I am photographing a Black Lives Matter demo in 2016


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2013 - At his memorial grave I finally found something Reagan and I could agree on - and reconciled with him.


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1975 - Popeye in San Bruno Jail, CA

1975 - Popeye writing for the Prisoners Union Paper


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1975 - Popeye in visting room


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1975 - Popeye at our “back in the world” release party

1975 - Local TV News


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1975 - Popeye and Sally Voye at party


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1975 - UPU member “Sleepy” at funeral


1975 - Popeye’s pregnant wife Pat Singer at funeral



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1975 - guests at 5000$ a plate fundraising dinner for President Ford

1975 - Ex-convict saying goodbye


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1971 - Two Veterans at Gandhi memorial, Lower Eastside, NY


1971 - dead body across from Gandhi memorial



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1975 - San Francisco. Linda Jones throwing ashes in the ocean


1975 - San Francisco. Rhodessa Jones throwing ashes


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1986 - With Dr. Charles King after one of his workshops


1991 - With my mentor on his deathbed in Atlanta a few days before his death



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2012 NYC. My lecture “On saying yes to those we shun”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oppression of women

Oppression of LGBTQ

Oppression of prostitutes

Serial murderers

Ku Klux Klan

Mary

Rockefeller

Lefus-Whitley

Virginia Pate

Black resistance