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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Alison Martin

This week in history: Free Huey Newton

As published in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times:

On May 1, 1969, chants of “Free Huey” filled downtown Chicago. In Federal Plaza, members of the Illinois Black Panther Party gathered to protest the imprisonment of Panther co-founder Huey Newton, who’d been convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of an Oakland, California, police officer.

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