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“When I was growing up in the early ‘70s, there was a lot going on with the Black Panthers and all that kind of stuff,” he said.

Alternatively, O’Neill explains that secret government counterintelligence programs at the time were intent on discrediting left-wing political movements such as the Black Panthers.

Malik Edwards grew disillusioned not only with the war but also with what was happening in America, and he eventually left the Marines to join the Black Panthers.

From the Black Panthers to the Weathermen to the war at home against involvement in Vietnam, the 1960s witnessed a galvanizing protest movement that defined a generation.

His rejection in October 1967 prompted the Black Panthers to picket the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden and triggered a boycott of the Athletic Club’s 1968 track meet, also at the Garden.