This white husband-and-wife team of photographers became Black Panther sympathizers through their Peace and Freedom Party political involvement and their deeply-imprinted memories of anti-Semitism (Baruch) and Southern lynchings (Jones). ""Slowly, we began to comprehend how severely maligned they were by all the communications media."" Armed with a spur-of-the-moment promise from the art director of San Francisco's De Young Museum to show Panther pictures, Baruch approached Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, gained their tentative assent and, eventually, their full confidence. The pair's first photographic foray was to a Free Huey rally in Oakland's De Fremery Park. At first they could aim their cameras only at the rank and file, but ultimately they were permitted to photograph the leaders at close range too, including founder Huey Newton at the Alameda County Court House jail. The completed collection became an object of controversy when the exhibit was abruptly canceled, but Baruch and Jones fought back and their show finally opened to record crowds. Displayed here along with a historical interpretation of the Panthers by black journalist William Worthy, a ""review of Panther growth and harassment,"" and the Party rules, platform, and program, the photographs are of demonstrations, crowds, speeches, displays, but mostly of faces--candid, committed, and compellingly human. - from Amzon