Collecting Oakland’s Activist Roots: the Black Panthers and Beyond Lisbet Tellefsen & Alexander Akin

Collecting Oakland’s Activist Roots: the Black Panthers and Beyond Lisbet Tellefsen & Alexander Akin

Lisbet Tellefsen, former publisher of the Black lesbian journal Aché, has become a noted archivist of materials from the Black Panther Party and other activist organizations. Many items from her collection are now at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and her papers now reside at Yale University’s…

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