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Black Panther Party Records (absence)

CTL-E-0793 · Archive · collection · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The absent centralized archive of the Black Panther Party: no single repository exists; offices were raided (1968-1970) with "file cabinets, party records" seized; former Panther Billy Jennings: "party members are dying every year, and there is no archive for all the great work the movement had done."

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-044; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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A singer with the band at a South Side tavern, Chicago, 1941
A singer with the band at a South Side tavern, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Having fun at rollerskating rink of Savoy Ballroom. Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Having fun at rollerskating rink of Savoy Ballroom. Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Instructors in roller skating at Savoy Ballroom. Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Instructors in roller skating at Savoy Ballroom. Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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