Black Panther Party

Within the Black Panther Party, women were treated with the same cold, harsh attitudes that the men were treated. In Assata’s case, her gender did not give her any sort of advantage over her male counterparts. In some instances, it even put her at a higher risk for abuses to take place, which eventually led her to decide to leave the party for good. When Assata first entered the Black Panther Party, she was extremely excited to become a revolutionary. However, as she describes, after her first…

In 1966, the Black Panther Party was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale to prevent police brutality against African Americans in Oakland, California. Around this time, after the landmark United States Supreme Court ruled the Brown v. Board of Education case, which stated that the segregation of schools were unconstitutional, African Americans continued to face poverty and economic inequality. They helplessly strived for community improvement and equal human rights and tried to find an…

what would be today the other co-founder of the Black Panther Party Huey Newton. The two met at a rally protesting the Kennedy administration blockade in Cuba. The two shortly became best friends…

In 1996, Bobby Seale alongside Huey Newton became one of two co-founders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in Oakland, California. The FBI presented the group as a terrorist or hate group, and made part of the mission of the organization to destroy the BPP, even though the BPP was nowhere near being as violent a threat. In his book Seize the Time, Seale wrote of the group’s victories and downfalls, including how the FBI exaggerated the nefariousness of the group and deceived the…

The Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party (BPP) was a change driven Black Nationalist and socialist organization that run in the United States in the period between 1966 and 1982. The movement had an only international chapter operating in Algeria in the period between 1969 and 1972, (Meghelli, 2009). The party was incepted on October 15, 1966, with its core activity of arming citizens' patrols to monitor the behavior of police officers and challenge police brutality in Oakland, California…

the twentieth century, and if it had not been for revolutionary groups like the Black Panther Party, it may have also been something we would face today. Living for the City (2010), written by Donna J. Murch, discusses the “new forms of organization, grassroots mobilization, and political literacy” (p. 6) of the Black Panther Party. By implementing anti-segregation and educational public campaigns, the Black Panther Party became important for the development and empowerment of the African…

major cities across the U.S, they ultimately failed to achieve the main goals detailed in the party’s original platform. Arguably, the legacy of the Black Panther Party was their ability to ‘militarize’ a large number of black Americans and spread the principles of violence and self-defense as counter-hegemonic tools. Many argue that the Black Panther Platform’s encouragement of physical resistance was necessary as protection from rampant police brutality, however, other critics claim that their…

New Vs Old Black Panther Party "Black Power!", "Black Power", "Black Power?" A rhetoric once chanted with pride and ambition, now mumbled in chaos and differing perspectives. Untried potential of the NBPP versus Maturity and dependable wisdom of the old BPP. Each rebelling towards a common focus "A violent civil disobedance, informed representation of afro-american culture, and political equality." But when did such a strong unified front, collaspe into just a watered down panther logo? Why is…

which made it relatable to black people everywhere.” This party tackled many aspects of black lives and made it known that their intentions not only were to protect the black folks of brutality but also provide further assistance in their everyday lives. This party became an astonishing movement and cities all over the world were attracted by it, however; in 1967 Huey was prosecuted for the deathly shooting of John Frey, a twenty three year old officer. The Panthers insisted that Huey should be…

of this, the Black Panther Party was formed by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The logo of the party was simple in appearance yet powerful in design, in order to call out for other black people to join the cause for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, by any means necessary. The text’s genre is a form of advertisement, being the party’s logo. The purpose of the text is to show pride and awareness to the Black…