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Event 1: Main Leader: Robert George "Bobby" Seale
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/seale-bobby-1936
Bobby Seale was cofounder and chairman of the Black Panther Party. When Bobby was 18 he joined the Air Force where he was given a bad conduct discharge after 3 years of service. He returned to Oakland and attended Merritt College where he was exposed to emerging Black Nationalist discourse and met Huey P. Newton. Inspired by Malcolm X, independent movements in Africa, Frantz Fanon, Huey and Bobby founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. -
Event 1: Main Leader: Dr. Huey Percy Newton
http://www.biography.com/people/huey-p-newton-37369
Huey P. Newton was the defense minister for the Black Panther party that he stated with Bobby Seale. Huey was a erratic child and it wasn't until the mid 1960's did he take his education seriously. He attended Merritt College where he met Bobby Seale. They both shared interest in wanting to start a political party for African Americans. Unlike other parties they took a more militant stance to strengthen the black communities in America. -
Event 2: The Founding of the Black Panther Movement
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/black-panther-party-founded
The Black Panther party was a political party that was predominantly black starting in Oakland California. They got their symbol from an independent party that started perviously in Alabama. The party main goal was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. -
Event 3: The Ten Point Program
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm
The Ten Point program was draft of demands the black panther party felt was needed in order to help the black community.
1. They wanted the freedom to determine their own destiny.
2. They wanted full and fair employment for blacks.
3. they want compensation for the years of slavery they faces.
4. decent housing for blacks.
5. Education that taught the true history of the black man and women to children... etc -
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Civil Rights timespan
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Event 4: Huey P. Newton Manslaughter Trial
http://law.jrank.org/pages/3178/Huey-P-Newton-Trial-1968.html
Huey trial was one very political. Before even hearing the defense many people jumped to the conclusions that Huey Newton had killed a police officer in cold blood. Others thought the trail was just a way to stop the BPP all together. He was charged with murdering Officer Frey who stoped Huey at a stop, assaulting officer Heanes who arrived on the scene, and kidnapping a man for his car.
Verdict; Guilty of voluntary manslaughter. -
Event 5: J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Investigation
http://inthesetimes.com/article/15949/how_the_fbi_conspired_to_destroy_the_black_panther_party
On Dec. 4, Chicago PD raided an apartment that held the leaders of BPP, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark leaving them dead. In the wake of the raid Bobby Rush spoke out and claimed that J. Edgar Hoover was responsible for the raid. After a couple of years it was revolted that the FBI was working on a project "COINTELPRO" which a program that designed to disrupt and discredit African American orgs. -
Event 6: Free Breakfast Program for children
http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/04/the-black-panthers-revolutionaries-free-breakfast-pioneers/ The breakfast program created by the BPP was a way to help poor communities it also was a way to America to face the hunger and poverty problem in America. By the end of 1969 the BPP was serving full free breakfasts to 20,000 school aged children. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover said that the BPP was a hate group and their free breakfast program was a way to distract people. -
Event 7: Major Accomplishments of the BPP
http://www.artvt.com/panthers/defense_committee.jpg
The Black panthers had major effects on the world economically and politicly. Economically they helped highlight problems facing minorities in America like poverty and hunger. The BPP also helped over 10,000 people with health and education initiatives. Another BIG thing they helped many African Americans is rediscovering their black identities, and also helped disadvantages African Americans get a fair shake in America. -
Event 8: Modern Problems
Even thought the black panther movment itself does not exist this time around there are groups still fighting for the same thing they wanted. Like the Black Lives Matter movement and its call to end POLICE BRUTALITY! They harbor some qualities of the BPP but they are not as militarized as the BPP was back then. They are a more nonviolent group that is speaking out against racism. they are also calling for an end of systematic racism aimed at blacks, and a revaluation of the justice system.
