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Introduction: Reconsidering the Black Panther Party

Most Mormon conversations about the Black Panther Party begin and end with the same vague warning: dangerous radicals. But for one family with roots in the American South, the story ends differently. It ends with safety on a dark Alabama road. According to an account shared on the Mormon Stories Podcast, a grandfather recalled driving the back roads of Alabama at dusk when a carload of Klan members forced him to pull over. The terror of that moment dissolved only when a second vehicle appeared. This one carried the Black Panther Party. The encounter offers a stark correction to the sanitized histories many LDS members