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Black Panthers

The late '60s and early '70s saw the rise of a militant civil rights organisation in the USA - the Black Panthers. We talk to Robert King who had a political awakening when black panthers conducted a protest in prison. He ended up spending almost 30 years in solitary confinement.

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