Black+Panther+Party

Demetri Decoulos

In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced self-defense in small communities against the U.S. government. They also fought to establish revolutionary socialism through organized programs. The party was a party whose agenda was the revolutionary establishment of real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines (Black). [|1]

A year later in April the first issue of //The Black Panther//, goes into distribution. In the following month, the party marches on the California state capital fully armed, in protest of the state's attempt to outlaw carrying loaded weapons in public. Bobby Seale reads a statement of protest; while the police respond by immediately arresting him and all 30 armed Panthers. [|2]

In October of 1967, the police arrest the minister of the Panthers, Huey Newton, for killing an Oakland cop. Stokely Carmichael, is recruited into the party,and soon becomes the party's Prime Minister in February. Carmichael is against allowing whites into the black liberation movement. Carmichael explains: "Whites who come into the black community with ideas of change and say that change can only come through black unity, which is the worst kind of paternalism…” (Black)

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"Black Panther Party." //Marxists Internet Archive//. Web. 29 Mar. 2012. . "BlackPanther.org." //BlackPanther.org//. Web. 29 Mar. 2012. .