Black Panthers: The Black Panthers Movement

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Today we have gotten in the habit of making movies based upon the past and the negativity it may have caused. Well recently disney made a movie called “ Black Panthers” it is a great action movie but it’s not what the “Black Panthers” movement was about. A currently today political activist Robert George a.k.a “ Bobby” Seale is the co-founder of the black panthers. Currently 81, he was born October 22, 1936, and graduated from Merritt college. While attending college, he joined the Afro-American Association (AAA). Dedicated to the (AAA) group he had bigger inspirations in which he learned he was not the only one but also his former brother, Huey P. Newton had the same intentions. Huey P. Newton and him became close once they learned that

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