Eldridge Cleaver

of Americans lived in subsistence levels. The author uses radian Black Panthers offices illegal arrests including his own in 1969 to attempt to ‘railroad’ the party members and also to deplete the funds of the party. Things really sparked when Eldridge Cleaver fled the country to Algeria which made him opened an international chapter that forged relationships with North Korea, Vietnamese, Chinese and African liberation groups. The parties foundational work centered on “survival programs” for…

Oppression is nothing new for the history books. Since the beginning of time there has always been a way in which people classify themselves, adding or taking away value based upon certain characteristics. No matter the time period, geographical location, or political era people find a way to rank themselves, and those around them. Take for example in the Bible; the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt by the Egyptians. The only differentiating factor between these two groups of people is where…

apart of local government and social services and the other wanting to continue the constant conflict with the police the group split. Huey Newton and David Hillman favored focus on community service coupled with self-defense and others like Eldridge Cleaver embraced a more confrontational strategy. Huey Newton at one time was exiled to Cuba to get away from charges of supposedly murdering Kathleen Smith and eighteen year old white prostitute that was later overturned due to the eye witness…

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…

When the black panther party started in 1966 they would patrol black neighborhood only to stop police brutality from happening. This group of 4 friends would create an empire that would grow to be known all over the nation. From helping black neighborhood to helping public figures like malcolm x get there point across the world about discrimination that used to plague our nation as a whole. The black panther party is important to our history because without them getting their point across the we…

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…

Black Panther Party knew what they wanted. Equal rights like whites. They were young, and they were black. But they couldn’t be ignored. By 19767 The Black Panther Party showed that they were a force to be reckoned with. Their fight for equality for blacks, put these outspoken youth on the map for American politics. The Black Panthers were African Americans fighting for self defence, and trying to stop police brutality. The Black Panther Party practised military self defence tactics…

Alice Walker is a famous civil rights activists and writer of the popular novel The Color Purple. Growing up during the era of segregation, Alice Walker portrayed a deeper view of the history of segregation in Georgia and individual experiences into all of her books and poems. Many have questioned the appropriateness of the usage of racism and sexism within her works like The Color Purple, as well as, her poems. This sparked an outrage in many libraries and schools in several states. Alice…

An American Tragedy “Soul Food is death food, it will kill you”. This bold statement was uttered by civil rights advocate, Dick Gregory in the PBS film, Soul Food Junkies”. Today’s African-Americans are marching, in step, to a slow death. Taken from their homeland and inducted into slavery, in Africa about 80 per cent of the diet was organic and consisted mainly of fruits and vegetables with little meat, mostly roasted. The African-American diet which was healthy and nutritious has been…

Island Trees School District No.26 in New York banned the sum 11 novels from its school’s district junior high and high school libraries. The 11 books banned were: Slaughterhouse-five by, Kurt Vonnegut, The Fixer by, Bernard Malamud, Soul on Ice by, Eldridge…