Of baltimore book festival continues with a history professor spencer on the black part but black Panther Party from california. [inaudible conversations] hello everyone. Thanks for coming welcome to the book fair pavilion things to everyone for coming summit you have heard the spiels already but to mnuchin day couple of things with a cooperative bookstore and coffeehouse at about 14 years at the Current Location with that pavilion with the baltimore book festival over the last decade it has been an exciting opportunity in the midst of the city to marginalizes histories and forgotten narratives and that is what we are here for it is exciting the past couple years due to the resurgence of political activity from grassroots that generated a further interest of the precursor. The black pamper party specifically founded in oakland 1966 with Inspirational Organization that that would be prebe easily discredited and to say those that criticize where those bands of the black panthers dependin
Gray in 2015. Lets get started. Coming up next, i would like to welcome everyone to the pavilion at the baltimore book festival. How many have been at some of the talks we have had so far . How many have been here . How many have never been here . If you like what you see, please check it out, we have a table back there and a location on north avenue corner of north and maryland. We are a radical bookstore, we are a fairly traded Coffee Roaster and coffeehouse and have dedicated ourselves the past 14 years to creating a communitybased, supportive of new ideas in terms of economic structures, business relationships, cultural ideas and resistance to the oppressive status quo. Some of our greatest events that happened over the past few years with one of the people speaking today, someone who came into artwork and a few years ago after one of the book festivals. He was at the time just beginning his journey into writing and an essay to pop culture, the first time he said to me, i glanced a
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Party appeared in the journal of womens history radical teachers and many collections of essays on the 1960s. She is completing a book on gender and organizational evolution of the black Panther Party in oakland, rebuking the risk the press and starting a second book product on the intersection of the movement for black liberation and the anti vietnam war movement. Next to her is barbara winslow, professor in the womens and gender studies program, the department of secondary education at Brooklyn College and one of my oldest and best friends. Theres a little message involved in my selection, not because they are my friends but because i know them well enough that i know they write well they want to communicate with College Students and the general public and they are interested in womens history. Barbara is founder and director of the Shirley Chisholm project 1945present and she is the author of Shirley Chisholm catalyst for change. Next to her is lara vapnek the author of Elizabeth Gu
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