Bobby Z.

The 1920’s were a time of drastic change in America. This was because of the many inventions and because of all the new laws was passed during this time. Crime rates were increasing because of the prohibition of alcohol. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb both came from wealthy families from Chicago, Illinois. Loeb was a troublemaker and has been obsessed with committing crimes all his life. It was just a matter of time where he would prove to everyone that he was capable of committing the perfect…

Bobby Murcer Walking up to the plate, a man of few words who left it all out on the diamond. A man on third with one out, he digs into the rich soil. Pitch goes by for a strike. Next pitch right down the middle, the ball was hit hard in the air over the third baseman. Bobby Murcer comes in clutch once again and leads the Yankee’s to another win. From an outstanding baseball career to battling brain cancer, a positive outlook led to success in Murcer’s life on and off the field. When Bobby was…

The black panthers used the media to their advantage and rapidly began to grow capturing the attention of thousands of Americans. As a result of the party's growth, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan began to make their way into the federal law enforcement advocating racist and violent abuse towards people of color. The leader at the time, President Hoover began to notice the advancement of the movement and feared "the rise of the black messiah", and the white allies who united to support the…

also took on issues like housing, welfare and health, 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…

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…

Robert George Seale better known as Bobby Seale was born October 22, 1936 in Dallas Texas. He was the oldest of three children. Seale grew up very poor with a very abusive father. Growing up he continuously saw his father mistreat his mother and beat her. (Bio, Page 1)His family then move to California where he attended Berkeley High School this is also where he started to gain some political knowledge. Seale then joined the U.S Air Force in 1955 sadly he was discharged after an altercation with…

“Huey Newton was not inspired by the civil rights movement, nor were most other black college students in the San Francisco area. The college students in San Francisco who were inspired by the movement were the white ones (Haskins, 9)” According to Bobby Seale, the civil rights didn’t influence them to start the party it was the fact that quiet, innocent and peaceful people were getting murdered and abused by the police (1). After the brutal march that’s when they decided to make the Black…

What people fail to realize there is a group called The New Black Panther Party and many mistake these two groups for each other . Bobby Seale, cofounder of the BPP, said many called the group a bunch of thugs but the same ones saying that didnt understand that the group “grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses." The New Black Panthers took the BPP old philosophy…

and have dinner ready for her husband he arrived home from work. Because of this, women had fewer opportunities in sports and were seen as inferior to men. It wasn’t until a famous tennis match in 1973 between a woman, Billie Jean King, and a man, Bobby Riggs, titled the “Battle of the Sexes,” that the nation started to realize women should be viewed on an equal playing field in not just sports but, in life. Billie Jean King is a six-time Wimbledon singles champion, four-time U.S. Open title…

perform the crime for the thrill of it, “To kidnap a child would be an act of daring—and no one, Loeb proclaimed, would ever know who had accomplished it.” (Baatz 1). It was indeed not the “perfect crime” they imagined. On May 21, 1924, they kidnaped Bobby Franks a fourteen-year-old boy, bludgeoned him to death in a rental car, and then dumped his body into a culvert in the next town over. The crime that had been written about hundreds of times “These varied texts, first published in 1924 and…