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Elaine Brown, new leader of Black Panther Party

With Eldrigde Cleaver, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale gone, who runs the Black Panther Party? Now the dominant public figure is a winsome, 32-year old former teacher, Elaine brown, whose picture appears six times in the current issue of the party’s newspaper. The paper’s banner head reads: “Elaine’s birthday party celebrates a new day in Oakland.” Photo issued March 12, 1975. (UPI Photo/CB/Files)


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