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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…

The Black Panthers were an organization that fought for the rights for the black people. So many things stood in their way but they fought. Yes, they weren 't the only organization who changed the laws for the black man but they did help a great deal. The white man and police were so cruel to these poor people. Some events lead to violence, arrests and even murder. The police brutalized the panthers and even just the common black person. Many people think the panthers were all about violence but…

The Black Panther Party is classified by a majority as a revolutionary black nationalist group, and by others, just a unorganized violent gang because of the use of self defense. There was nothing rebellious or threatening about what the party set out to achieve. Many did not understand the Panthers, because in all honesty, they were very intimidating. The way they Panthers dressed in all black was very horrifying and a tactic in itself to intimidate the police. The whole purpose was to look…

Informative Outline Background Information: The Black Panther Party was formed by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seal in the United States in late October in 1966. The Black Panther Party, also known as BPP was initially formed as a political platform for African Americans to stand up to police and the government. Many African Americans migrated west and north to escape the racism in the south, but once they were in their new cities, they were faced with a new form a racism that they were not…

Angela Davis: An Autobiography Better known as a prominent figure in the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis is a well known radical leftist and a member of the Communist Party USA. She was a professor at UCLA, which then California Governor Ronald Regan urged the Board of Regents of the University of California to fire her for her Communist affiliations. However, she fought them in court and it was ruled the Regents could not fire Davis solely because of her affiliations with the Communist Party.…

The Civil Rights Movement not only revolutionized race relations in the U.S., but also setup a working model that still inspires political movements, and leaders worldwide. It hasn’t been the first or last attempt to eliminate racial discrimination in this country, which still persists in some form or another to this day. Racial discrimination, segregation and inequality have always been an area of constant debate in American history, heavily leaning towards suppression of the disenfranchised.…

Until recently, I have not given much thought into what career I wanted to pursue when I go to college. I was given a set of questions that asked what accomplishments I wanted to fulfill and what jobs I would consider doing. As I wrote down my responses it was clear to me that I have a passion involving my culture and the history behind it. I soon discovered that there was a career specifically designed for what I was interested in and I wanted to learn more about it. For my paper I decided to…

Ice. The macho mythos of the party often obscures, now as it did then, the complexity of the party’s official stance on gender politics and the serious nature of its dialogue with and engagement in issues of gender parity. The facts that the Black Panther Party was the first, and for many years the only, national African American organization to speak out in favor of gay rights or to make open alliances with a homosexual rights group, and that the organization had many women in positions of…

These factors compare to the demise of the Black Panther Party and other radical African American organizations in the 1960 's and 1970 's in that the "major danger and worst enemy of the urban guerilla is infiltration into the organization by a spy or informer", which led to uneasiness and the destruction…

Emory Douglas’s pieces titled Afro-American Solidarity with the Oppressed and Panther Sisters on Women’s Liberation are two pieces that show Douglas’s revolutionary art that were powerful symbols of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 to protect minority communities against the United States government. The BPP also used community based programs and mass organization to start revolutionary socialism. Both…