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Bobby Seale was born in Liberty, Texas, to George Seale, a carpenter, and Thelma Seale (née Traylor), a homemaker. [6] The Seale family lived in poverty during most of his early life. After moving around Texas , first to Dallas , then to San Antonio , and Port Arthur , Seale's family relocated to Codornices Village [ 7 ] in Albany, California ...
He had also been beaten around his face, groin, and lumbar region with a hard object. In his jacket pocket was a note to Bobby Seale, the Panthers' national chairman, from Ericka Huggins, a prominent New Haven Panther. Seale had been in New Haven to give a speech on the Yale University campus only hours before Rackley was killed. [3]
During that time, national party chairman Bobby Seale visited New Haven and spoke on the campus of Yale University for the Yale Black Ensemble Theater Company. [3] The prosecution alleged, but Seale denied, that after his speech, Seale briefly stopped by the headquarters where Rackley was being held captive and ordered that Rackley be executed.
Courtroom sketch of Black Panthers Bobby Seale, George W. Sams Jr., Warren Kimbro, and Ericka Huggins, during the 1970 New Haven Black Panther trials.. George W. Sams Jr. (born c. 1946) was a member of the Black Panther Party convicted in the 1969 murder of New York Panther Alex Rackley, which resulted in the New Haven Black Panther trials of 1970.
In late October 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense). [10] In formulating a new politics, they drew on their work with a variety of Black Power organizations. [40] Newton and Seale first met in 1962 when they were both students at Merritt College. [41]
On the heels of his Emmy win for HBO’s Watchmen, the actor returns to the awards circuit with The Trial of the Chicago 7, in which he portrays civil rights icon Bobby Seale. Infamously beaten ...
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On November 5, 1969, after declaring a mistrial in the prosecution of Bobby Seale, [29] Judge Hoffman convicted Seale on 16 charges of contempt, [30] and sentenced Seale to three months in prison on each count—a total of four years, which may have been the longest contempt sentence in U.S. history at the time. [49]