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Huey Newton is the choosen leader due to his prominance in the black panther revolution and his prominat fighting spirit for black rights.
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The group formed in California by two founders Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale. The group origanlly were to protect black neighborhoods from police brutality http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/black_panthers.htm
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combination of bill of rights and declarations of independence with recspet to marxism and black nationallism.All discrimantory issues were contained in the partys ten point program. http://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/actions/actions_platform.html
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Norton was on trial and wronfully convicted http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3498200236.html
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FBI director J. Edgar Hoover considered the Black Panther Party the greatest threat to national security. http://vault.fbi.gov/Black%20Panther%20Party%20
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police brutality against blacks. http://www.socialistalternative.org/panther-black-rebellion/the-black-panther-party-for-self-defense/
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There are still bad blood between the black panthers with the government and white people. As the part still believes in black supremicy people still disagree with it and its still a little to revolutionary.
