TheIndaba ebambekayo yenye yezinhlangano ezivukela umbuso nezinempikiswano enkulu ngekhulu lama-20. Ngokugqugquzelwa kukaMarxist-Leninist, abaphathi abamnyama bazimisa njengenye indlela ehlukile kunhlangano yokulwela amalungelo omphakathi eholwa nguMartin Luther King. Ukuhlanganisa izingobo zomlando ezingavamile nobufakazi obuningi, ukungena kwe-punchy enhliziyweni ye "Black Power".
Oakland, California, 1966. Unyaka ngemuva kwezidubedube zakwaWatts eLos Angeles, abafundi ababili, uHuey P. Newton noBobby Seale, benza iqembu lokuzivikela ukuqapha izenzo zamaphoyisa e-black ghetto. Ngokuthi, ngawo lowo nyaka, inhlangano yenkululeko yezepolitiki yase-Afrika naseMelika, iBlack Panther Party (BPP) iyizwi lomphakathi onesihluku eMelika ophethwe ngabantu abamhlophe. Ngokuphefumulelwa kukaMarxist-Leninist, le nhlangano igqame njengenye indlela ehlukile kunenhlangano elwela amalungelo abantu eholwa nguMartin Luther King. Ngokuhambisana "nezinhlelo zayo zokusinda" (ukudla kwasekuseni kwamahhala kwezingane, izikhungo zokuphakela, njll.), Ithi ithanda ukuvukela umbuso. Iziqubulo, ukusika kwe-afro, isibhakela esiphakanyisiwe: amaBlack Panther avula umzabalazo omusha womphakathi omnyama. I-FBI, esatshiswe yi-aura yenhlangano, kufaka phakathi nentsha emhlophe, iyaqinisa ukulwa nobuhlakani. Ukuboshwa kukaHuey P. Newton, okubandakanyeka ekubulaweni kwephoyisa, kwenza inhlangano ingazinzi. Ngo-1968, ephendula ngokubulawa kukaMartin Luther King, umkhulumeli wakhe u-Eldridge Cleaver wenqaba ukuzinikela ngemuva kokubambana namaphoyisa. Waya ekudingisweni e-Algiers futhi wasungula isigaba seqembu lomhlaba wonke lapho.