Operating from place to place from the pool halls to the campuses, he organized, recruited, and lectured. Years later, Dr. Huey Percy Newton would tread in “a West Oakland neighborhood plagued by drugs and violence” (Stein, M. A.), espousing his last words before slaughtered: “You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!” (Pearson, H) Though the majority of us may not recognize the name of Huey P. Newton with the passage of time, we feel the consequences of his actions to this day, responsible for the founding of the Black Panther Party and its community-oriented actions. And though his death may have been a heated confrontation over drug use, his image is imprinted in the souls of those who befriended him, described by Father Earl Neil as the modern Moses in a eye-to-eye struggle
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With the pressure of corrupt law enforcement and Hoover's paranoia, the BPP had violent encounters, growing militant in its protests. However, the BPP heightened the concerns in the public, protecting African Americans from morning hunger and disease when institutions in American society couldn't (Simkin, J). One of the legendary achievements was the "nonaggression pact" between Chicago's most powerful street gangs at the hands of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party (Simkin, J). However, the group began to splinter, and Newton was shortly dispelled from the BPP as the group begin to form factions, geared around direction and modus operandi. In the University of California Santa Cruz, Huey would come to receive a Ph.D. in social philosophy in 1980, with his doctoral dissertation: War Against the Panthers: A Study in Repression in America (Simkin,
With the pressure of corrupt law enforcement and Hoover's paranoia, the BPP had violent encounters, growing militant in its protests. However, the BPP heightened the concerns in the public, protecting African Americans from morning hunger and disease when institutions in American society couldn't (Simkin, J). One of the legendary achievements was the "nonaggression pact" between Chicago's most powerful street gangs at the hands of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party (Simkin, J). However, the group began to splinter, and Newton was shortly dispelled from the BPP as the group begin to form factions, geared around direction and modus operandi. In the University of California Santa Cruz, Huey would come to receive a Ph.D. in social philosophy in 1980, with his doctoral dissertation: War Against the Panthers: A Study in Repression in America (Simkin,