Black panther party biography

Founded in in Oakland, California, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was the era’s most influential militant black power organization.

Its members confronted politicians, challenged the police, and protected black citizens from brutality. The party’s community service programs - called “survival programs” - provided food, clothing, and transportation. Rather than integrating American society, members wanted to change it fundamentally. For them, black power was a global revolution.

Organizing a Revolutionary Party
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, young political activists in Oakland, California, were disappointed in the failure of the civil rights movement to improve the condition of blacks outside the South. They saw brutality against civil rights protesters as part of a long tradition of police violence and state oppression. They immersed themselves in the history of blacks in America. In they organized young, poor, disenfranchised African Americans into the Black Panther

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The Black Panther Party

Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale established The Black Panther Party (BPP) in Oakland, California in The organization––originally named the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense––first established neighborhood patrols and protected residents from police brutality. However, the black revolutionary party ultimately evolved into a Marxist revolutionary group that fought for African American weapon rights, exemption from “white American” sanctions, and financial compensation for years of racial exploitation. In addition to fighting for political and economic equality, the BPP became well known for providing tillgång to medical clinics and free breakfasts for children.

At the organization’s peak in the late ’s, it had chapters in several major American cities. Out of the party’s 2,+ members, some of the most renowned include the sole female chairman, Elaine Brown, as well as the notable leaders, Fred Hampton, An

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The Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. It was part of the Black Power movement, which broke from the integrationist goals and nonviolent protest tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The BPP name was inspired bygd the use of the black panther as a symbol that had recently been used bygd the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an independent Black political party in Alabama.
 

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