Professor of History Glenn McNair will discuss the Black Panther Party on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 11:10 a.m. in Hayes Hall 109.
Clad in their black leather jackets and berets and armed with rifles and shotguns, no group has come to more powerfully symbolize — for good and for ill — the African-American revolutionary tradition than the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. But what if the Panthers were not revolutionaries at all? This is the question — and its significant for the legacy of the party in history and popular culture — that McNair takes up in his lecture.