Black Panther Party Essay -- American History

Huey sassyton and Bobby Seale were two African-American men growing up in the ghetto of California where they saw and experienced racism and police brutality. there voices were not heard when it came to their communities. It took three young children to die by gondola crashes, and a peaceful candlelight vigil that turned into a react between a neighborhood and the police (in which the police covered up their badges so that no one could report them to the police department) for them to expect to murder a change to free themselves from control and oppression. It was because of this that 25 year emeritus Huey Newton and 30 year old Bobby Seale founded The benighted Panther companionship for Self-Defense in October 1966, in Oakland, California. The party was inspired by revolutionaries much(prenominal) as Mao Tse-tung and Malcolm X. Malcolm had represented a militant revolutionary, with the dignity and gravitas to stand up and fight to win equality for all loaded minoritie s. Influenced by the teachings of Maos Red Book the organization became more of a Marxist-Communist conference that favored violent revolution, if necessary, to bring about changes in society. Equipped with rifles and the knowledge from many law books the Black Panther Party fed the hungry, protect the weak from racist police, and presented a Ten Point Platform and broadcast of Black political and social activism. The platform is stated as follows 1.) We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. 2.) We want adept employment of our people. 3.) We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black community. 4.) We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. 5.) We want schooling for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent Ameri... ...hoicec.)Huey Newtons arrest unites the two feuding races of revolutionariesV.)Panthers and the policea.)hostilityb.)quote from Panther Paper causes alarm within the brassc.)gov ernment campaign against the PanthersVI.)The enda.)More FBI infiltrationb.)Illegal and wrong methods of infiltrationc.)Death of Panthersd.)Struggle to keep party afloate.) dying of partyBibliographyAndrews, Lori Black Power, White Blood. New York Pantheon Books. 1996.Carmichael, Stokely, Hamilton Charles V. Black Power the political relation of Liberation in America. New York Random House. 1967Freed, Donald. Agony in New Haven. New York Simon and Schuster. 1973Meier, August, Rudwick, Elliott. Black Protest In the Sixties. sugar Quadrangle Books. 1970Shakur, Assata, Assata An Autobiography. Chicago Lawrence Hill Books. 1987