Black Panthers and SNCC Press Conferences

KTVU News footage from 1968 featuring views of Black Panther Party (Oakland Chapter) members Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard and Kathleen Cleaver arriving at a packed courthouse. Stokely Carmichael is also seen with the Panthers. Includes scenes from a press conference with Bobby Seale, who explains that: "Mr Carmichael has been in constant contact and there's a merger going on with the Snick [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC] and the Black Panther Party for self defense, to unify black people around this country in terms of trying to liberate themselves." When a reporter points out that some people are calling Seale "racist and fascist" Seale retorts: "On the contrary ... I don't lynch white people." Ends with views of Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver and other leaving the building, surrounded by the press.