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Dennis Cunningham

Born January 2, 1936 · Glencoe, Illinois, USA

Died March 5, 2022 · aged 86

Dennis Dickson Cunningham was an American civil rights lawyer. He was a founder of the People’s Law Office. After the killings of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, he successfully sued the United States government on behalf of the Black Panthers. In 1982, the case was settled for $1.85 million.

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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the RevolutionThe Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution · 2015
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
★ 7.02015
MovieDocumentary
The story of the Black Panthers is often told in a scatter of repackaged parts, often depicting tragic, mythic accounts of violence and criminal activity; but this is an essential story, vibrant, human; a living and breathing chronicle of a pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in America.
Who Bombed Judi Bari?Who Bombed Judi Bari? · 2012
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
2012
MovieDocumentaryCrime
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.

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