Playboy Interview: Huey Newton

Playboy Interview: Huey NewtonWhen most of the American public first heard of him, it was as a name on a button, a graffito scrawled on subway walls: Free Huey. Huey, it turned out, was Huey P. Newton, ''defense minister'' of the Black Panther Party, a paramilitary organization (founded by him and ''chairman'' Bobby Seale) with a flair for self-publicity and inflammatory sloganeering. He became a martyr for black militants---and a cause célèbre for white liberals---after being convicted of and i...