Legendary composer Leonard Bernstein was in the middle of one of the most famous high-society racial controversies of the 20th century when he held a fundraiser at his Manhattan penthouse to support the Black Panthers in January 1970.
But , , has opted not to feature the infamous party meant to raise money for the 'Panther 21' - the group's 21 members jailed and charged with conspiring to kill police and plotting to bomb parts of .
The fallout from the party, held at Bernstein's duplex apartment on the Upper East Side, was incendiary, with The New Yorker magazine dubbing the moment as the 'most notorious episode' in Bernstein's career and writer Tom Wolfe's account of the party popularizing the phrase 'radical chic.'
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