A collection of documents on North Korea's ties to the Black Panther Party and other groups associated with the American radical left in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the documents were obtained from the personal papers of Eldridge Cleaver, a leading member of the Black Panther Party who visited North Korea twice, held by the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, and the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. For additional context, see the 2013 essay by Benjamin Young "'Our Common Struggle against Our Common Enemy': North Korea and the American Radical Left." See also the Digital Archive collection: North Korean Public Diplomacy.
Benjamin R. Young introduces ten documents from the personal papers of Eldridge Cleaver, a former Black Panther Party leader, that describe Cleaver's fascination with and travels to the DPRK during the 1960s and 1970s.
