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The Kamatic Way of Life

Video Series Trailer

Ausar Auset Film Series Presents
May 16th, 2008
2:30pm - 4:00 pm

Eyes on the Prize: A Nation of law? 1968-1971

The Rise of the Black Panther Party 


Black activism is increasingly met with a violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies. In Chicago, two Black Panther Party leaders -- Fred Hampton and Mark Clark -- are assassinated in a pre-dawn raid by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant who had infiltrated the Panthers. In the wake of President Nixon's call to "law and order," stepped-up arrests push the already poor conditions at New York's Attica State Prison to the limit. A five-day inmate takeover calling the public's attention to intolerable conditions in the prison leaves 43 men dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by police.

 
The rise of the Black Panther Party and its work in the community is chronicled. Chicago chapter. The prison riot at Attica penitentiary in protest of intolerable conditions is also covered.