Thank you for sharing this story. I join you in applauding those students, and celebrating their achievement. I tend to take this event as a coda to the earlier devastation of the Black Power movement, and particularly the assassination of Fred Hampton. Personally, I thought that the Panthers' political analysis and program was more coherent, compelling, and pertinent to the general population, which was why they were targeted so viciously. The attack on Move, I think, served to show that even a marginal and not especially charismatic organization was more than could be tolerated, and could be crushed with impunity. 

At present, there is more and more information about our racist history entering the public sphere. This gives me hope that the privileged comfort of ignorance and denial will become much harder to preserve. The Black Lives Matter movement also gives me hope. It's a difficult time, but with much opportunity. God Bless.