doing just about everything and author of a wonderful book called ella baker in the black freedom movementn election in chicago, long time activist around labor rights come around human rights and civil rights and longtime representative of freedom movements of southern africa. somebody who represented the governments of mozambique, mungle and south africa in the apartheid era and remains one of the amazing people speaking for internationalism and the relationship between the struggles there in the struggles here. so each of the u.s. you can see is capable of eliminating the complex three-hour lecture on multiple issues raised by jeff's book and the life and death of fred hampton and the story of his family. assuming our audience is with us for only a short period, i am going to try to engage this brian penaluna conversation. this will require keeping in moving so i'm apologizing in advance for my plan to interrupt all of you. at the end of this thomasian willis, a civil-rights lawyer that many of you know and i will take questions from the audience and then we will adjourn for organizatio

also important for us to remember that there are also radical elders and burgundy and mentioned ella baker in a whole number of other people in the '60s who were at that time not young but certainly or radical. and there were reactionary young people. if so use is not the magic pill but rather the impetus was the ideas are there. >> martha, can you give us what is the main issue that sparked the beginning of the black student movement and colleges in '68 and '69? >> okay. i'm glad you asked that question because i think that's the black student movement of the late 1960's that swept campuses across the country from san francisco state to brooklyn college to cornell to howard really. nationwide, high-school as well, this is very much associated with the rise of affirmative action with the rise of black studies, hiring black faculty is and administrators, sweeping changes in american intellectual life and there are many causes of this and roots of it. about one cause that isn't often talked about is the panther's. i will remind you of one of the portion of one of their 10 points platforms, w