Black Panthers

Formation of the BPP

Oct 15, 1966

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale together form the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in response to feeling unprotected by white public servants during the US Civil Rights Movement

First BPP Office Opens

Jan 4, 1967

National Media Attention

May 2, 1967

30 BPP members take guns to the California state capitol, sparking the first national media attention

Huey Newton in Trouble

Oct 28, 1967

Huey Newton kills a police officer named John Frey and is convicted of murder

First Man Down

Mar 4, 1968

Arthur (Glen) Morris is shot by US Government agents, making him the first BPP member to be killed

Bobby Hutton

May 6, 1968

First member of the BPP, Bobby Hutton, is shot and killed during a police shootout