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- Cynthia Chinue X Cornelius
- Oct 3
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Updated: Oct 22
On This Day In TCXPI History
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Robert George Seale was born on October 22, 1936, to George and Thelma Seale. His father was a master carpenter, and his mother was a home maker. The oldest of three children, Seale grew up with his younger brother Jon, his sister Betty, and his cousin Alvin Turner.
Bobby Seale’s family faced four major moves from Dallas, to San Antonio, to Port Arthur, Texas, and finally settled in the Berkeley/Oakland area of California during World War II. Despite these hardships, Seale describes his childhood as typical for black men of the time. Seale attended Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California. During his high school years Seale began to form a political consciousness.
He began to question the knowledge he learned in school on issues such as Native American history and the African continent. Seale enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1955, but was given a bad conduct discharge in 1959 following a run-in with his superior officer.
While going to night school at Merritt College in Oakland, California, Seale worked odd jobs, including working as a sheet-metal mechanic (the trade he learned in the Air Force) and a comedian.
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