Miss West started work on it in the 1950s but lost her will to complete it with the emergence of the Black Panthers in the 1960s.

ECONOMIST: Dorothy West

Even the Black Panthers, who sallied into town for a shameless publicity session, praised the white sheriff, Billy Rowles, for his efficient handling of the case.

ECONOMIST: Race relations

Five marriages, four ending in divorce, the first with a man who beat her and the fourth, in 1968, with Stokely Carmichael, the leader of America's Black Panthers.

ECONOMIST: Miriam Makeba

Cuba has harbored U.S. fugitives in the past, though most of those cases date back to the 1960s and 70s, when the island became a refuge for members of the Black Panthers and other militant groups.

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"The water that we drink every day has been around for millions of years and circulated through who knows what -- dinosaurs, black bears and panthers, " said David Czamanske of the Sierra Club.

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It's a relatively unknown story of an individual who's really the forefather of the black power movement, who laid the intellectual foundation for the Panthers and others.

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