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Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton
Huey P. Newton was the cofounder and minister of defense of the Black Panther Party. -
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is created
History of the Black Panther Party
Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton create the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California. -
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Black Panthers
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The Ten Point Program is created
The Ten Point Program
The Ten Point Program outlined the political goals of the group that included ideas of Marxism and Black Nationalism. -
FBI investigations into Black Panther activities
Huey NewtonBlack Panther history -The Black Panther Party declared that their party members must read Mao Zedong's book
-Hoover declares the Black Panthers the ‘greatest threat to the internal security of the country’
-FBI investigations into the Black Panther chapters, locations and people led by J. Edgar Hoover -
Huey Newton’s 1968 manslaughter trial
Huey Newton Biography -Huey Newton accused of having shot John Frey in 1967
-Convicted of manslaughter in the trial, which started on 8 September
-Finally, the state dropped its charges and Huey was let out of prison -
Starts Free Breakfast for Children Program and fights police brutality
PoliceFree Breakfast -January 1969: Started program to give free breakfast to all schoolkids in chapters of the BPP -police quarrels with the BPP because of their radical views
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Accomplishments of the Black Panther Party
Successes of the Black Panther Party
Major accomplishments to this date of the group were the Free Food Program, the Free Medical Research Health Clinics, and the Intercommunal Youth Band. -
Problems or Goals today
New Black Panther
-The Black Panther Party was dissolved in 1982; the New Black Panther Party was made in 1989 New Black Panther Party goals:
-To expand to more locations and chapters
-To get complete freedom with a separate nation for black people
