Aperture has released a collection of Stephen Shames' never-before-published photographs of one the most controversial organizations of the Civil Rights movement. The Black Panthers: Photographs By Stephen Shames, illustrates the way in which the group’s political agenda was tied to their aesthetic sense and includes essays by Black Panther Party founder Bobby Seale and Charles E. Jones, Chair of the African-American studies department at Georgia State University. For more information, visit: http://www.aperture.org/bpp/

Black Panther founding member, Bobby Seale speaks with voters on a bus during his 1972 Oakland,
Californnia mayoral campaign.

Black Panther children attend classes at the Panther house in Oakland, California.

George Murray, Minister of Education, Black Panther Party, addresses students during a 1969 protest at
San Francisco State University.