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On this day, 18 July 1969, Black Panthers held a conference in Oakland alongside the white anti-racist Young Patriots Organisation and Puerto Rican street gang-turned-radical group the Young Lords. The Young Patriots were a group of poor, mostly Appalachian migrants in Chicago, who wore Confederate flags but fought racism. Leading Black Panther Fred Hampton played a key role in building links with them and other white working class youth, until he was assassinated by police. This is a short history of the collaboration between the BPP and YPO: https://libcom.org/history/young-patriots-panthers-story-white-anti-racism And this is a speech delivered by one of the YPO at the conference: https://libcom.org/history/young-patriots-united-front-against-fascism-conference-1969 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1169552236563258/?type=3

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There’s a long tradition of white people trying to understand what it would be like to step into black people’s shoes. But the journalist Grace Halsell went one step further: She attempted to step into black people’s skin.
Using vitiligo treatment pills to help darken her complexion, Halsell traveled and worked in Harlem and Mississippi in 1968, passing as a black woman. She documented her experiences in her 1969 book Soul Sister, which she said she hoped would help white people to understand what it was like to be black. (She was inspired by John Howard Griffin, whose 1961 book Black Like Me took a similar approach.)
As you might imagine, Halsell’s foray into blackness was controversial. But it also struck a chord. Lyndon Johnson provided a blurb for the book, and it sold more than a million copies.
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