History Of The Black Panther Party

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Throughout the years the Black Panther party created a 10 point program as a list of demands from the American government. The Black Panther Party first publicized its original Ten-Point program on May 15, 1967. The points included, freedom, full employment, banning of capitalism, decent housing, education that reflected true African American history, black men to be exempt from war, immediate cease of police brutality, freeing all black men in the judicial system, with new trials. Included in that was pure separation from white people in general.
The Nation of Islam and the Black Panther party is not so different except for that the NOI has a religious faction. The NOI believed that the war on blacks is the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy.

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