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WHAT WAS THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY?

28/02/2011 13:26
The Black Panther Party was a progressive political organization that stood in the vanguard of the most powerful movement for social change in America since the Revolution of 1776 and the Civil War: that dynamic episode generally referred to as The Sixties. It is the sole black organization in the...

HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE FOUNDING OF THE PARTY

28/02/2011 13:25
There was no question that the end of the several centuries of the institution of slavery of blacks had not resulted in the assimilation of blacks into American society. Indeed, there was a violent, post emancipation white backlash, manifested in the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, endorsed by the benign...

RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

28/02/2011 13:23
Every member of the Black Panther Party throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional members of this party. Central Committee members, Central Staffs, and Local Staffs, including all captains subordinated to either national, state, and local leadership of the...

RISE OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

28/02/2011 13:21
It was against this backdrop that Huey P. Newton was organizing the Black Panther Party for self-defense, boldly calling for a complete end to all forms of oppression of blacks and offering revolution as an option. At the same time, the Black Panther Party took the position that black people in...

THE FREE HUEY MOVEMENT AND THE GROWTH OF THE PARTY

28/02/2011 13:19
Hundreds of thousands of black as well as white youth had marched throughout the streets of Oakland and all over America in support of the Free Huey Movement as it had come to be called. While Huey was eventually convicted, it was not on the original charge of first degree murder but for simple...

THE LAST CHAPTER

28/02/2011 13:18
During that time, Brown ran for Oakland public office again, this time garnering more than 44% of the vote along with the support of every labor union in the area. At the next city election, the Party supported and virtually installed Lionel Wilson as mayor of Oakland, the first black to hold that...

THE TEN POINT PROGRAM

28/02/2011 13:16
We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Black Community. We believe that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny. We Want Full Employment For Our People. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man...
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