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Issues Today
The Black Panther party was constructed mainly for the equal rights of African Americans but they generally help all races for equal rights. Problems they face today are still around but more discrete. They still fight against discrimination as well as maintaining the rights to be equal and fair towards everyone reguardless of their skin color. -
Founding of the Black Panthers
Huey biography
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton found the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland. -
Protest against limits to bear arms.
Armed Panthers invade the capitol in California to protest legislation limiting their right to bear arms. -
Book becomes best seller
Eldridge Cleaver publishes Soul on Ice, which becomes a best-seller. Which is about him and his transfer to the Malcom X movement -
Shootout death
APRIL 6, 1968
Shoot-out between Panthers and Oakland police leaves 17-year-old Panther Bobby Hutton dead. -
Major Accomplishment
The most famous and successful of their programs was the Free Breakfast for Children Program, which at first was run out of an Oakland church.
Other survival programs were free services such as: distribution of clothing, classes on economics and politics, free medical clinics, lessons on self-defense and first aid, transportation to upstate prisons for family members of inmates, an emergency-response ambulance program, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, and testing for diseases. -
Deadly police raid
DECEMBER 4, 1969
A predawn raid by police leaves Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark dead in a Chicago apartment. -
Huey Newton killed
AUGUST 22, 1989
Huey Newton is killed in West Oakland.
