Black Pnther Party

During the turbulent and changing times of the 1960's, one group sought to improve the status of the African American leadership, The Black Panthers. The Black Panther Party was a militant movement that fought for equality and freedom. They wanted to change the inequality that African-Americans were facing through employment opportunities, police brutality, and unfair trials by the judicial system. In the sixties, African-American people were being hosed, beaten and thrown in jail for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. This caused anger in many black urban communities, especially in Oakland, California.

Huey P. Newton founded the Black Panther Party for self-defense in 1966. Newton attended Merritt College in Oakland, Californ

1963-1967. Bloomington, London: Indiana University Press, 1968.

The Party's influence weakened as the wire taps, false documents, and inner turmoil created by the Cointel Program mounted against them. A lot of Panthers went to jail and the Party came to a rough and abrupt end. In the past decade, America has released a lot of former Panthers who were arrested for things that they weren’t even guilty for. Out of the 2,000 arrests of Black Panthers or people affiliated with the Panthers 95 percent of their convictions were overturned.()

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