Bobby Hutton (1950-1968)
Bobby Hutton Rests. Henry Taylor, 2008 |
Hutton was born in Jeferson Country, Arkansa, and moved to Oakland with his family under threat from the Ku Klux Klan. He joined the Panthers at 16 after meeting Bobby Seale and Huey Newton at the North Oakland Neighborhood Anti-Poverty Center. Hutton was one of several Panthers to march on the state capital building to protest the Mulford Act.
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