Y'all this is my hometown. Its a small town but its historically important. Its probably one of the only communities in Southern Illinois that was never a Sundown Town. If I had grown up 5 or ten miles in any direction from Carbondale id would've become a cracker supreme, pure white trash. But fortunately I was born in Carbondale: "In November 1970, university, state and local police shot 778 Bullets into an off campus rental house in Carbondale, IL. The residence was rented to a handful of university students, some were assumed to be associated with the local Black Panther Party. Unlike other police raids of known Black Panther residences across the country, the Carbondale Panthers shot back. Using archive material, newspaper accounts, witness testimony and experts in the field, 778 Bullets recovers a little known history of resistance and resilience of the human struggle for self-determination. The dominant memory of the Black Panther Party would have us believe that the Panthers existed only in major urban cities; this story documents a more rural presence of radical politics and the struggle for civil rights." vimeo.com/40699020

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale has a powerful history of radical anti-war organizing and Black liberation struggle. The Black Panther Party once maintained a house in Carbondale for Black students barred from living on campus, and the last armed confrontation between the Panthers and police took place there. Carbondale is my hometown. Please support this petition. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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