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The Real Black Panthers

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The Last Man to Die in Vietnam

In 1966, the year the Black Panther Party was founded, the United States was in the midst of the hottest part of the Cold War. The US military was fighting a bloody war in Vietnam to oppose the expansion of communism. How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? We are asking Americans to think about that.

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