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- Bobby Seale was born on October 22, 1936 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Malcolm X (1992), Rude Awakening (1989) and The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011). He is married to Artie. They have two children.
- SpouseArtie(? - present) (2 children)
- Was one of the "Chicago 8" along with Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner. They were charged with conspiracy and inciting to riot, in the wake of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
- Co-founder of The Black Panthers.
- Is portrayed by Panou in Steal This Movie (2000).
- Was sentenced to four years in prison during the "Chicago 8" trial. After constant outbursts and and verbal attacks on the judge, Seale was bound and gagged and severed from the trial earlier after his sentence. From then on, the "Chicago 8" were known as the "Chicago 7".
- Seale was the co-founder of the Black Panther movement in the 1960s.
- [observation, 2016] When I talk to young folks I try to tell them that we live in an overdeveloped, high-tech, fast-paced, computerized, scientific, technological social order. We have an interconnected global economy evolving all around us. And we have this climate-change factor. It's for all of us - whether it's black, white, blue, red or whatever.
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