"The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror and the Yellow Spectre) is a color-metaphor that East Asians are an existential danger and threat to the Western world. As a psycho-cultural perception of menace from the Eastern world, fear of the Yellow Peril was more racial than national, a fear derived not from concern with a specific source of danger or from any one country or people, but from a vaguely ominous, existential fear of the faceless, nameless horde of yellow people opposite the Western world."
"Under the leadership of the Black Panther Party and the Peace and Freedom Party, 5,000 protesters gathered in Oakland on Newton's birthday, February 17, 1968, in support of Newton. ... The phrase “Free Huey!” was adopted as a rallying cry for the movement, and it was printed on buttons and t-shirts."
Showing that the Black Power Movement was a movement that a lot of different races got behind and supported and did what they could to make a change by protesting. Also, that it wasn't just doing things for the black community, but for other races as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_P._Newton
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