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Black Panthers - College Essays

Black Panthers

In 1966, the national Black Panther party was created. Their platform and it’s ideals
struck a chord with blacks across the country, especially in the inner cities of the north. The
Panthers were able to organize and unite these blacks. This alarmed the federal government.
They instituted many controversial, illegal programs of harassment, infiltration, and instigation
which led to the deaths of many Panthers.
From their inception, the were treated with disdain and contempt. The
Panthers wrote out a platform called “What We Want, What We Believe.” There ideas and
methods appealed greatly to blacks. The past few years had seen the civil rights struggle rise, and
had left many ...

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the government. In March of 1968, the
Panther newspaper printed this warning to police, “Halt in the name of humanity! You shall make
no more war on unarmed people. You will not kill another black person and walk on the streets
of the black community to gloat about it and sneer at the defenseless relatives of your victims.
From now on, when you murder a black person in this Babylon or Babylons, you may as well give
it up because we will get your ass and God can’t hide you.”1 This gave the government cause for
alarm, and they stepped up their “efforts” accordingly. The government went through great
lengths to keep up the status quo. They began campaigns of disinformation against the Panthers
in order to stop any support for the Panthers. The Panthers were continuously harassed by police.
Panthers were followed and arrested on minor, sometimes fabricated charges. For Example, in
Oakland California, the headquarters of the Panthers, police would randomly arrest any Panthers. ...

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Added: 10/11/2007 11:37:38 PM
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