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Black Panther Party
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
Word Count: 1374 Includes: BibliographyThe Black Panther Party (BPP) was one of the most prominent and notorious organizations of black power to emerge during the 1960s. It successfully organized thousands of militant blacks committed to improving the social conditions of their communities. The Panthers’ founders, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, were initially inspired by the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in conjunction with activists from rural Alabama who formed the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO). But Newton and Seale, attracted also to the revolutionary rhetoric and black nationalistic ideals of Malcolm X, adopted the black panther as a symbol and formed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in October 1966in Oakland, California, after they were unsuccessful in their efforts to influence the politics ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 1472Militant black political organization originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966. Newton became the party's defense minister, and Seale its chairman. The BPP advocated black self-defense and restructuring American society to make it more politically, economically, and socially equal.Newton and Seale articulated their goals in a ten-point platform that demanded, among other items, full employment, exemption of black men from military service, and an end to police brutality. They summarized their demands in the final point: “We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace.” They adopted the black panther symbol from an independent political party established the previous year by black residents of Lowndes County, Alabama. ...
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Source: Black Women in America, Second Edition
Word Count: 2989 Includes: Historical Background | Women in the Black Panther Party | Internal Conflicts | Party Shifts | Disaffection and Disintegration | BibliographyHuey P. Newton and Bobby Seale organized the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) on 15 October 1966 , in Oakland, California. They devised a Ten Point Platform and Program to demand self-determination, employment, land, food, and education along with an end to robbery by capitalists in the black community. The BPP Program also insisted upon exemption from military service, an end to police brutality, freedom for all incarcerated men, trials by a jury of peers, and justice and peace for all oppressed minorities.Although the BPP was founded by men and emphasized some programs directly related to black men, women were integral to the organization and worked for the greater good of their people without regard for gender conventions. ...
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Source: The Oxford Companion to United States History
Word Count: 441Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party for Self-defense soon became the best-known revolutionary, nationalist organization of the Black Power Era. Rejecting the civil rights movement's integrationist goals and nonviolence, Panthers advocated self-help, community control, and armed defense against police brutality. The party's youthful, urban constituency organized citizens' patrols in black neighborhoods; wore paramilitary uniforms featuring black berets and leather jackets; and operated health clinics, food pantries, “liberation schools,” and children's breakfast programs. Newton's 1967 imprisonment after his conviction (later reversed) for killing a policeman spurred a nationwide “Free Huey” campaign.Addressing African Americans ...
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