2024
Lorenzo Bradford
- Doctoral Student
- Harvard University
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Abstract
This project explores legal culture and counter-hegemony in New York’s Long Black Power movement asking: How did organizers challenge the power of the state within and beyond traditional spaces of confrontation? Using the trial of the Panther 21 as a point of departure, this project examines courtroom performances and organizing strategies through a mixed methods approach incorporating traditional archives, critical oral histories, Black studies and critical race theory.