home/movie/1969/may day newsreel 29

May Day (Newsreel #29)

Name: May Day (Newsreel #29)
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1969-01-01
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Bobby Seale

Not Rated

Documentary

This film documents a rally in San Francisco sponsored by the Black Panther Party. Kathleen Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and other speakers addressed thousands of protesters demanding more rights for African Americans and calling for the release of Huey P. Newton.

01-01-1969

15 min

Main Cast

Unknown Actor

Unknown Character

Known For

Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)

1968

The FBI's War on Black America

1990

Self (archive footage)

Unknown Actor

Unknown Character

Known For

Zabriskie Point

1970

Kathleen

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

2015

Self - Black Panther Party (archive footage)

The Weather Underground

2002

Self

Bobby Seale

Unknown Character

Robert George Seale (born October 22, 1936) is an American political activist and author. Seale is widely known for co-founding the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Huey P. Newton. Founded as the "Black Panther Party for Self-Defense", the Party's main practice was monitoring police activities and challenging police brutality in Black communities, first in Oakland, California, and later in cities throughout the United States. Seale was one of the eight people charged by the US federal government with conspiracy charges related to anti-Vietnam War protests in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Seale's appearance in the trial was widely publicized and Seale was bound and gagged for his appearances in court more than a month into the trial for what Judge Julius Hoffman said were disruptions. Seale's case was severed from the other defendants, turning the "Chicago Eight" into the "Chicago Seven". After his case was severed, the government declined to retry him on the conspiracy charges. Though he was never convicted in the case, Seale was sentenced by Judge Hoffman to four years for criminal contempt of court. The contempt sentence was reversed on appeal.[5] In 1970, while in prison, Seale was charged and tried as part of the New Haven Black Panther trials over the torture and murder of Alex Rackley, whom the Black Panther Party had suspected of being a police informer. Panther George Sams, Jr., testified that Seale had ordered him to kill Rackley. The jury was unable to reach a verdict in Seale's trial, and the charges were eventually dropped. Seale's books include A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton, and Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers (with Stephen Shames). Description above from the Wikipedia article Bobby Seale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.