"Move On Over Or We'll Move On Over You" - Black Panther Party Song [03:09 | AUG 20 22 | Shenandoah]

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"Move On Over Or We'll Move On Over You" - Black Panther Party Song [03:09 | AUG 20 22 | Shenandoah]

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Black Panther Party@lemmy.world · 14 hours ago

This is a song of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, based on the BPP slogan “Move on over or we’ll move on over you.” It was set to the same tune as The Battle Hymn of the Republic/John Brown’s Body.

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@thomasl.koehnline5775 | 1 year ago | Since it’s not in the description, I just want to mention that these lyrics were written by Len Chandler, a great songwriter from the Greenwich Village scene who toured around with Cordell & Bernice Reagon & the Freedom Singers during the Civil Rights Movement in the '60s & later. This recording is from an appearance he made on Pete Seeger’s 1964-65 TV series Rainbow Quest, & is the only recording I’ve found of Chandler himself performing the song. | Len Chandler died just a few days ago, at the age of 88.

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Founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was the era’s most influential militant black power organization.

Its members confronted politicians, challenged the police, and protected black citizens from brutality. The party’s community service programs - called “survival programs” - provided food, clothing, and transportation. Rather than integrating American society, members wanted to change it fundamentally. For them, black power was a global revolution.

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Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, young political activists in Oakland, California, were disappointed in the failure of the civil rights movement to improve the condition of blacks outside the South. They saw brutality against civil rights protesters as part of a long tradition of police violence and state oppression. They immersed themselves in the history of blacks in America. In 1966 they organized young, poor, disenfranchised African Americans into the Black Panther Party.^[1]

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