Bobby Seale, surviving founder of the Black Panthers, will speak tonight as part of Black History Month programming at Ohio University.
Serving eight years as the chairman, Seale created more than 40 chapters of the Black Panther Party with 5,000-plus members. The Black Panthers, founded in 1966 after the assassination of Malcolm X, was designed to protest violence against peaceful demonstrators.
Seale was arrested and jailed as part of the Chicago Eight, after protests at the Democratic National Convention in 1968. He was eventually separated from the rest of the group after being bound and gagged in court.
He now works at Temple University as a community liaison in the Department of African and African American Studies.
The speech is in the Baker University Center Ballroom at 7 tonight. The Black Student Cultural Programming Board is sponsoring the speech.
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