Echoes of Blackness
Podcast @ Skid Row Studios
Michael Blaze & Author Robert Lee Johnson
Robert Lee Johnson
Author, Historian and former Black Panther member of the Compton Branch
Robert
Lee Johnson was chairman of the projects committee of the History Council at
the California African American Museum; He was co-coordinator of the Compton
branch of the Black Panther Party and founding member of the Coalition Against
Police abuse. Mr. Johnson lectures on local history and mentors a civil rights
class at Otis College. His family moved from Watts to Compton in 1961.
Images of America- COMPTON by Robert Lee Johnson
Book Description:
Compton is a city of
myth and misunderstandings. Today, it is known as the city of “hip-hop dreams
and gangsta fantasies.” Its history, however, is not as well known. Author
Robert Lee Johnson reminds us of a glorious history from 1867 to the 1970’s.
Compton's first Black Mayor 1969
Echoes of Blackness
Black Panthers 2014 ArtshareLA
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