The HistoryMakers video oral history with Aaron Dixon.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 58 min.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Scott Stearns.

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Community activist Aaron Floyd Dixon was born on January 2, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois. Dixon became one of the first African Americans to integrate the Seattle school system when he attended Queen Anne High School in 1963. In 1967, Dixon enrolled in Washington University where he was involved with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and was a founding member of the Seattle Area Black Student Union. He helped to establish the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968. Dixon moved to Oakland, California, in 1972 where he served as a bodyguard for the Black Panther Party's chairperson Elaine Brown. Dixon worked on the campaign of Oakland mayor Lionel Wilson in 1978. He founded the non-profit Central House in 2002. In 2006, Dixon was nominated by the Green Party for U.S. Senate. In 2012, Dixon published a memoir, My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Scott Stearns.

Larry Crowe, interviewer.