The Black Panther Party
On the day October 15, 1966, a revolutionary nationalists
organization was founded by two men, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The
name of their group was called of Self Defense.
The purpose of which the party was established, was based upon a 10 point
program. The first point was, " We want freedom. We want power to
determine the destiny of our Black Community." Second, "We want full
employment for our people." Third, "We want an end to robbery by the
Capitalist of our Black Community." Fourth, "We want decent housing, fit
for shelter of human beings." Fifth, "We want education for our people
that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want
education that ...
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of the United States." And their tenth point was, "We want
land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our
major political objective, and United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be
held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects
will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of
black people as to their national destiny." With these ten points as their
fuel the Black Panther Party was ready to take on the nation.
In the mid sixties Newton and Seale's organization took shape.
They finalized a draft of the Black Panther Party 10 Point Program and
Platform and found the Black Panther Party of Self Defense, in October 15,
1966 (Boyd; lines 191-193). The main office of the Black Panther Party
was a cramped store front on Grove Street in West Oakland, sandwiched
between a tiny soul-food joint and an alley (Moore 82). The BPP was very
organized, they had a list of ten party rules.
1. No party member can ...
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the police. The Panthers way of getting things done
was the exact opposite approach that Martin Luther King took, King
believed in nonviolence. They were more in lines with Malcolm X's role
"The right to defend ourselves by any means necessary." On April 4, 1968,
Martin Luther King is killed. Immediately people comment on the irony:
we have criticized King for his nonviolent strategy, and now he's dead by
an assassin's bullet (Hilliard 182). With the death of Martin, the
Panthers do things their way. "Nonviolence has died with King's death."
This is our general consensus: no more hoses, whippings, and dogs.
People shouldn't be asked to bleed peacefully, Malcolm has said. ...
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