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The Black Panther Party





Introduction  ** Bobby Seale and Huey p. Newton founded “   The Black panther party for self defence” in Oakland, California in 1966, They were a powerful movement which protested against police brutality, racial inequity and the ban of weapons. They were a large party who represented the African-American population in a fight for justice, peace and social change. After just two years the party had over 2000 members and around 100,00 people subscribed to their newspaper, but not everybody was happy with the black panthers ideas, they recieved many death threats and lost many members in violent protests. In the late 1960"s they started to lose support and by 1970 the party had disappeared from the radar.**

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 Methods of protest  **The black panther party are still remembered for their violent and intimidating methods of protest. They openely carried guns and other weapons when they protested and were often behind violent plans in which they attempted to overthrow the government.  Even within the party there was disagreement about the group's use of weapons and mascots. Many wanted to support the movement in their attempts to better the treatment of African-Americans but were unhappy about which methods were used to achieve this. In April 1968 they lost their first of many party members during a violent protest, Bobby Hutton; the party's secretary was just 17 when he was shot in a police confrontation. Even the authourities were worried about what the party would do next, J. Edgar Hoover who was head of the F.B.I at the time stated that the Black Panther Party was probably the biggest threat to America's internal security at the time. The Black Panther Party also used the media as a way of protest, they had their own newspaper, which at one stage was reaching over 100,000 people.**

The Black Panther Party's ideas

 **The black panther party started out as a gang who supported African-american self-defence against what they called police brutality. They believed that coloured people were targetted by the police and other authorities. As the party developed they started to base their policies around Carl Marx's communisist ideas, they believed that resources and money,should be shared out within the community and everybody should be equal. The leaders of the Black Panther Party formed a ten point program which outlined what changes they wanted in society and what they stood for, it read as follows....**  1. ** We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our black and opressed communitites. **  **2.** **We want full employement for our people.**  **communities.** **4.** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.** **5.** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**We want decent education for our people that exposes the true nature of this** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**decadent american society. We want education that teaches us our true history** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**and our role in the present-day society** **6.** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**We want completely free health care for all black and oppressed people.** **7.** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**We want immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people, other** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**people of colour, all oppresses people inside the united states.** **8.** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**We want immediate end to all wars of aggresion.** **9.** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**We want freedom for all black and oppressed people now held in U.S federal,** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**state, county, city and military prisons and jails. We want by a jury of peers**   <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="DISPLAY: block; FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">** for all persons charged with so-called crimes under the laws of this country. ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif"> 10. **We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people's community control of modern techology.**
 * 3. ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Bradley Hand ITC, sans-serif">**We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black and oppressed**



__**What did they acheive?**__ Timeline of Black Panther History: <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //**1966**:// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //Bobby Seale and huey .p. Newton found the Black Panther Party for self-defence. They were triggered to start the group after the assasination of Malcolm X.// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //**1967:**// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //The black panther party march into california, protesting new legeslation restricting the use of weapons.The party believed that everybody had the right to defend themselves, an idea which was strongly debated.// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //**1968:**// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //**1969:**// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //**1974:**// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //Newton flees to Cuba after be accused of murdering a prostitute.Leaving the party in the hands of Elaine Brown. This was when the party first started to lose it's support there was much media attention.// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //**1977:**// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //Newton returns from Cuba and goes to prison on and off for numerous crimes.//
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //17 year old Panther member, Bobby Hutton dies in a shoot out between the black panther party and the Oakland police.//
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //Huey p. Newton is charged with voluntary manslaughter of an Oakland police officer.//
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //Police and Military raids continue all around the United States, killing many Black panther members, and frightening many members to a point where they no longer dared to show support for the party.//
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //Two black panther leaders are killed in another shoot out.//
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //A breakfast program for African-American children is started. Plans for more community based programs are formed, including plans for a community school for African American children, this school was built in the following years.//
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are found dead in their apartment after a police raid.//
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //Many of the Black Panther members are arrested and the party fades into the backround.//

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //**1989:**// <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //Huey p Newton is killed in West Oakland.//

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial Rounded MT Bold, sans-serif"> //**1990--:** from the 1990's and still today there are still many reminants of the Black Panther Party's ideas and what they achieved for the African-American people. There is even a New Panther Party which is making a feeble attempt to relive the ideas and policies of the original Black Panther Party.//

Bibliography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party http://www.iveknownrivers.org/read.php?id=125 __ http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/004.html __http://www.4strugglemag.org/archives/images/panther%20power.jpg

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