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Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton was the cofounder and minister of defense of the Black Panther Party. -
History of the Black Panther Party
Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton create the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California. -
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The Ten Point Program
The Ten Point Program outlined the political goals of the group that included ideas of Marxism and Black Nationalism. -
Huey NewtonBlack Panther history -The Black Panther Party declared that their party members must read Mao Zedong's book
-Hoover declares the Black Panthers the ‘greatest threat to the internal security of the country’
-FBI investigations into the Black Panther chapters, locations and people led by J. Edgar Hoover -
Huey Newton Biography -Huey Newton accused of having shot John Frey in 1967
-Convicted of manslaughter in the trial, which started on 8 September
-Finally, the state dropped its charges and Huey was let out of prison -
PoliceFree Breakfast -January 1969: Started program to give free breakfast to all schoolkids in chapters of the BPP -police quarrels with the BPP because of their radical views
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Successes of the Black Panther Party
Major accomplishments to this date of the group were the Free Food Program, the Free Medical Research Health Clinics, and the Intercommunal Youth Band. -
New Black Panther
-The Black Panther Party was dissolved in 1982; the New Black Panther Party was made in 1989 New Black Panther Party goals:
-To expand to more locations and chapters
-To get complete freedom with a separate nation for black people
