Discover the Networks: Black Panther Party
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Violent revolutionary organization of the 1960s and 1970s
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Its members engaged in drug dealing, pimping, rape, extortion, assault, and murder.
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Aimed to harass the police, to protest against “police brutality” and America’s allegedly racist power structure, and ultimately to ignite a violent race war in the United States
In the spring of 1966, Huey P. Newton turned his Oakland, California street gang into the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. His co-founders in this endeavor were Elbert Howard, Reggie Forte, Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale, and Little Bobby Hutton. The name of the nascent organization was a composite of two existing groups that Newton greatly admired: a Lowndes County, Missippi organization known as the Black Panthers, and a Louisiana-based entity known as the Deacons for Defense.[1] In 1967, Newton shortened his group’s name to, simply, the Black Panther Party (BPP).
To define BPP’s mission, Newton wrote a ten-point program consisting of the following items:
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We Want Freedom. We Want Power To Determine The Destiny Of Our Black Community.
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We Want Full Employment For Our People.
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We Want An End To The Robbery By The Capitalists Of Our Black Community.
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We Want Decent Housing Fit For The Shelter Of Human Beings.
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We Want Education For Our People That Exposes The True Nature Of This Decadent American Society. We Want Education That Teaches Us Our True History And Our Role In The Present-Day Society.
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We Want All Black Men To Be Exempt From Military Service.
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We Want An Immediate End To Police Brutality And Murder Of Black People.
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We Want Freedom For All Black Men Held In Federal, State, County And City Prisons And Jails.
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We Want All Black People When Brought To Trial To Be Tried In Court By A Jury Of Their Peer Group Or People From Their Black Communities, As Defined By The Constitution Of The United States.
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We Want Land, Bread, Housing, Education,Clothing, Justice And Peace.
Moar:
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/black-panther-party-bpp/