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Black Panther Party

            Many people today could easily identify who Martin Luther King was or Malcolm X. Their work and teachings were very well known back in the sixties as well as they are today. But if we ask ourselves about the Black Panther's, the answer is a little bit different. They were an organization that truly applied most of the concepts that both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X where fighting for and that eventually would succeeded. Yet when the Panthers membership and popularity rapidly declined in the eighties, they almost were completely forgotten and shelved by the media. Much today is said about many American civil rights leaders, especially Martin Luther King and Malcolm X but many historians and educators purposely scrap the BPP (Black Panthers Party) because it is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) blimps in U.S. history to show the world that such racism and inequality existed not so many years ago in America, the very same country that was raising the issue of democracy and equality in the UN non-stop to pressure other countries (especially the Eastern Bloc of communist countries) while its own citizens were being denied those rights and privileges that all Americans were supposed to have. The question that we all must ask ourselves is why did the United States government and its other agencies did not tolerate blacks and immediately put a stop to racism instead of trying to suppress the Black Panthers instead. We should all know the truth on what the BPP stood for, what actions they took and how the U.S. government under the direction of the FBI brought the BPP down.
             The Black Panther's were an organization that stood up for the rights of all blacks in America who were oppressed by the various governments inside the United States that were supposed to serve them instead of brutalizing them. Oakland, California is a good example of this were many blacks were brutalized by the police on a regular basis until the BPP stepped in and fought back with force.


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1. "Black Panthers" From Beginning To End

... Newton and Seale choose the black panther as the Party's symbol because it was a powerful image. The Black Panther Party also formed the Young Panthers. The Young Panthers were an auxiliary group that the Party organized for the young people from the community, but they weren't actual party members. The Black Panther Party promoted "Black Power" and self-defense. The Black Panthers Party openly carried guns around, ... Agents of Repression pg.63}. During 1968 through 1971 the Black Panther Party underwent the worst of the FBI's anti-Panther activity. The FBI went to great links to destr...

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2. PANTHER POWER

... living according to it" It is this concept of the lower class against the bourgeoisie, which I wish to look at in terms of the Black Panther Party's ideology. The ideology of the Black Panther Party is the historical experiences of Black people in America translated through Marxism-Leninism theory. It was the Marxist idea of a class system revolt between a bourgeoisie (US government and its ... would cause a revolution of society and an overthrow of the system in charge. This is what Newton and Seale hoped to achieve through the Black Panther Party. "Black Panthers believe and believe p...

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3. Black Pnther Party

... the sixties and seventies. 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 ... -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 Oak...

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4. "Comrade Sister: Women of the Black Panther Party

... domains. Though occasionally mentioned, women also played an extremely vital role in the Black Panther Party, which has created a revolutionary impact on how things have evolved currently in the United States for instance free health clinics, free lunch, and free daycares. The film, "Comrade Sister: Women of the Black Panther Party-, presented by Dr. Phyllis Jackson detailed the strength of one of the most ... significant "Black Power- organizations in the 1960s, which was backboned by women whom served as cornerstones of the organization by keeping everything in order. Dr ... the peopl...

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5. The Short Beginings of The Black Panthers

... 1966 6 young African American men were sick of their segregation from white America. What's more is they wanted the unity of all working class people, and so the Black Panther party was formed. Their militant stance earned them infamy while their strong influence in the civil rights movement earned them respect. This influence was not necessarily a good thing as the ... the federal building during a hearing for the imprisoned Black Panther leader. The film includes clips of speeches by Newton's attorney Charles Garry, Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale, Communications Secretary Kat...

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6. Black Power

... by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), she met Kendra and Frank Alexander, who were both active members of SNCC, the Black Panther Party, and the Communist Party. Angela Davis was so intrigued by the political work of the Alexanders"; she moved to Los Angeles to join the Alexanders" ... Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1969. Almost immediately, Davis's courses became very popular. However, due to her involvement with the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party, she was fired by the state board of regents at the request of Gov. Ronald Reagan. Although a court overturned the di...

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7. Cointelpro Vs. Black Panther Party

... such as: misdirect, discredit, disrupt or otherwise neutralize certain individuals and groups. The most intense operations were directed against the Black movement, basically the Black Panther Party. The Black community had a lack of material resources to fight back, so the FBI and police (whites in general) took this ... facts, it will be hard to determine if it all ended. Another "Party" that struggled through the 60's was the Black Panther Party. It started out in the summer of 1968, when the David Brothers established a Black Panter Party (BPP) branch in Brooklyn, NY. A lot of people ...

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8. Rights for Homosexuality - Gay is the New Black

... becomes increasingly difficult to see parallels between their struggle and that of the struggle within the LGBTQ community. Ironically, the gay and black communities have acknowledged their similarities and worked together to fight oppression. The Black Panther Party, a radical group for the civil liberation of African Americans, popular during the 1960's-a group that one LGBTQ young adult, Crichelle ... group's rights. Although the Gay liberation movement during this time period was marginal, it still existed, and leader of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, even called for all ma...

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9. Nationalism (Black)

... the world. (Henderson, 8) Rapper KRS-ONE promoted a different image of hip-hop. He began to push the image of a politically conscious underclass akin to that proffered by the Black Panther Party. Black underclass was seen as a proletariat class with the most propitious prospects for organizing and producing revolution out of colonization. His By All Means Necessary is a self-consciously Malcolm X inspired image ... , brought thousands of young blacks to the political philosophy of nationalism. For example, in their song "Party for Your Right to Fight" they transform the title of the part...

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