Black Panther Party

for equal rights. Blacks have had less opportunities to succeed in life and voice their opinions. Because of these on going issues, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was formed in 1966. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (later dropped ‘ for Self-Defense’) were considered the voice of those oppressed during this period of time (Trueman). Initially, the Black Panther Party was formed to help protect local communities from police brutality and racism (Duncan). As a result of blacks being…

The Black Panthers were a group formed in 1966 that dissipated in the early 1970’s, although their legacy still remains. The group formed in Oakland California. The black youth growing up there faced an unfair amount of racism, and a new kind of poverty. Since many had grown up during the WWII era, their parents were unemployed and they often were looking for food. One of the younger members of the group wrote a poem explaining the searching. His name is Albert Wood fox his poem goes like this…

Though the Black Panther Party had experienced its most influential years in San Francisco and Oakland between 1967 and 1972, a lack of census data from non-decennial from NHGIS narrowed my quantitative GIS analysis solely to 1970. Despite this small window of information, the metadata I had applied as layers within ArcMap had provided me with a surprising amount of insight to the racial and economic landscape of Panther activities at the height of their potency as well as at the height of…

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…

fighting for equal treatment. Although years ago it was the Black Panthers who promoted equal rights for women. The Black Panther Party was thought to be a group that promoted violence to get what they wanted, but their gender philosophies on women were ahead of their times. The Panthers treated women like men’s equals. Elaine Brown was the head of the organization for a few years, and women played a major role in the revolution. The male Panthers never considered women to be worth less than…

several organizations, namely, the Black Panther Party and was an active communist. Thus, she ran into a few woes within the school administration due to her involvement within the communist party. A warrant…

system with the Little Rock Nine, while many other activists seized the chance to attack the Jim Crow laws. Also, World War II black veterans rallied under the slogan “Double V” day, which praised both the victory in Europe and progress with equality. President Roosevelt allowed the desegregation of defense industries with an executive order, which helped thousands of blacks find jobs and a steady source of income. Truman desegregated the military and established the President’s Committee on…

March 7, 1965, has been named in history as Bloody Sunday for the tragic and important event in the Civil Rights Movement. On this Sunday in Selma, Alabama, around 525 African Americans gathered at Browns Chapel in order to march for their right to vote. They planned to march from Browns Chapel in Selma to Montgomery which is an at least a fifty mile march. The marchers were trying to go to Montgomery in order to see Governor Wallace. They wanted to tell him that they wanted the right to…

in the outcome. A good example is Huey P. Newton, also know as one of the co-founders of The Black Panthers party. The Black Panthers established in Oakland October 15, in order to combat the treatment of the community by the police officers. Newton’s role as an political educator, involved him to obtain knowledge of the situation even before he started the group. Reason being, in order to start a party to combat a social issues, he had to informed on what he wanted to make a change in. For…

1. The changing environment for business affects Google’s ability to communicate in this situation because the lines have become increasingly blurred. The internet provides businesses with platforms by which to communicate with customers in ways that were unheard of before so companies like Google have become more involved politically than they were before. The actions that Google took in this case in choosing to cooperate with the Chinese government might have communicated a politically charged…