Gallery: 1972 National Black Political Convention
These are The Times' photos from the 1972 National Black Political Convention.
Bobby Seale, left, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson talk, Saturday night, March 12, 1972, at the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana. Seale called for black unification around concrete programs for survival, and Jackson is director of PUSH, People United to Save Humanity.
Welcome poster at black convention shows black man as Superman.
Eager hands reached out to Gary Councilman Thomas Crump Jr. (Right background). The object: Delegate passes for the national black convention. They were dispensed after Indiana delegation caucused.
Television crews wait as black convention got a late start.
Black boosters in Gary are for getting it all together.
Jesse Jackson and Mayor Hatcher open black convention.
A selection of photos from the 1972 National Black Political Convention, published on March 12, 1972.
Nixon aide Robert Brown called convention non-partisan.
Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, musician Isaac Hayes, and actor Richard Roundtree were among the celebrities at Roosevelt High School in Gary Saturday. The trio opened the Black Political Convention's "Gala" there and welcomed among others, Black Panther Bobby Seale.
This is how The Times covered the 1972 National Black Political Convention after its final day.
Awaiting the start of the 1972 National Black Political Convention.
After the 1972 National Black Political Convention, it was time to sweep up political campaign material and other litter.
After the 1972 National Black Political Convention, it was time to sweep up campaign literature and other litter.
Lone delegate from the Lone Star State briefs himself with background material as he waits for other delegates to join him at opening of black political convention in Gary.
Television crews await the start of the 1972 National Black Political Convention.
Television crews wait as the 1972 National Black Political Convention got a late start.
Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., addresses the press at the opening of the National Black Political Convention, March 10, 1972. Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of the newly organized People United to Save Humanity, is second from left.
Rev. Jesse Jackson talks to newsmen at the opening of the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind., March 11, 1972. Gary's Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, left, and poet-activist Imamu Amear Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) look on.
As the National Black Political Convention ended in Gary, Ind., March 13, 1972, poet Imamu Amear Baraka, chairman of the convention, speaks to the delegations. The convention, which ran for three days, ended on a note of discord as the delegation from Michigan left the floor in protest.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson gestures for silence after chants from the crowd stopped the opening speech at the Black National Convention in Gary, Indiana, March 11, 1978. The crowd complained that view of the speakers platform was blocked by television crews. The proceedings resumed when the crews moved. Rep. Charles Diggs (D-Mich.), presiding chairman of the convention is at left.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, executive director of Operation: PUSH, speaks from the floor of the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, March 13, 1972. Jackson had said on Sunday, "If we do nothing else today, we ill have made a revolutionary step toward a black political nation in this country and in the world.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson talks to newsmen at the opening of the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, March 11, 1972. Gary's Mayor Richard G. Hatcher, left, and Amiri Baraka, the former LeRoi Jones, look on.
Bobby Seale proclaimed all black people, involved in any way with survival programs for the black community, revolutionaries at the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana on Saturday, March 11, 1972.
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