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October 22, 1936, Main Leaders: Huey Percy Long and Bobby Seale- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Panther-Party
There were two founders of the Black Panthers, Huey Percy Newton, and Bobby Seale. Newton was born on February 17th, 1942 in Monroe, Louisiana. Bobby Seale was born on October 22, 1936, in Liberty, Texas. These two men played an important role in civil rights because they believed in equality and they were willing to fight for equal rights anyway possible. The Black Panthers and the two co-founders had four main pillars, equality in civil rights, education, employment and housing. -
Event 3
The Ten Point Program was a way for the Black Panthers to display their goals as a group. It allowed others to see where this group is headed and what they wanted to accomplish along the way. The four main pillars of the ten point program were equal civil rights, equal housing, equal education and equal employment. They improved African American education and they set different standards for African Americans because they now knew that they will gain equality.
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Event 2
The Black Panthers was formed because Newton and Seale were sick of the unnecessary police brutality on the African American society. They formed the group in order to be an independent group to fight for their own beliefs in their own way. The founders were sick of the inequality so they introduced the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. This group grew national attention which brought more attention to civil rights.
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Huey Newton's 1968 manslaughter trial http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/26/us/arrest-in-murder-of-huey-newton.html
Huey Newton was charged with first-degree murder, assault, and kidnapping. It started when John Frey said he would be stopping Huey Newton’s car. Police received a call and when they arrived they saw Frey bleeding to death and Heanes wounded in the car. Newton’s trial took place from July 15 to September 8, 1968. -
J. Edgar Hoover leads FBI investigations into Black Panther activities https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Panther-Party
Programs were created to stop black nationalist hate groups. J. Edgar Hoover described the Black Panthers as a national hate group. This ultimately made the tensions between the two worse leading to the FBI being accused of assassination to Black Panther members. -
Black Panther Achievements
-Black Panthers set up more then 35 survival programs that provided community help, education, tuberculosis testing, free food for the poor and more.
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Starts Free Breakfast for Children Program and fights police brutality http://www.organizingupgrade.com/index.php/modules-menu/community-organizing/item/942-honoring-the-44th-anniversary-of-the-black-panthers-free-breakfast-program
The panthers would go out and get donations of food from businessmen. If a chain of stores refused they would boycott that store. This program was created to help the poor children with free breakfast. The federal government has created similar programs to help schools. Police brutality-African Americans were fed up with how they were treated by police. They used open carry gun laws for protection against police. This caused violence and tension to grow between the two -
Problems Today
-Black Lives Matter similar group
-1 Problem that still continues today that BP and BLM both fight for is police brutality. They protest to punish policeman who abuse African Americans and to stop the abuse all together. blacklivesmatter.com/about/ -
Problems Today
-Another major problem they fight for today is equal opportunity for young people in low income neighborhoods. They are a lot of times trapped with no good way out of the poverty cycle. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-black-lives-matter-opposes-police-brutality-not-police-article-1.2717122
