In the Garden: Earnestine

Earnestine Leathers, photo credit Corey Rose

In the second installment of my three-part mini-series on the 55th Anniversary of the Black Panthers Party, we hear a story from Earnestine Leathers. When she was 15, Earnestine ran away from home and accidentally joined the first Black Panther Party chapter to be formed in the South, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Here’s Earnestine, in her own words.