would think, a starker history of resistance. this, after all, is where the black panthers were born. bobby seale was a founder of the black panthers, a critical figure in oakland history. and here at miss ollie's we get a taste of the shiny, new oakland. >> bobby: the black panther's a type of animal. if you push it into a corner it's going to try to move out your way. and when you keep pushing it, sooner or later it's going to come out of that corner. so i said that's like black people. we just pushed in the corner. we came up with the black panther party. i said we're going to take a position on self-defense. >> anthony: the panthers were viewed by j. edgar hoover's fbi anyway, as pretty much public enemy number one. >> anthony: they sold the panthers as the enemy using well, essentially your own imagery of strong black men holding weapons. but internally what the fbi and nixon saw as the real threat from the panthers was the children. >> bobby: the popularity. with the killing of martin