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Black Panthers Timeline

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  • Huey Newton

    Huey Newton
    • Founded the left-wing Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
    • Social activist.
    • Controversial.
    • Got in trouble with law throughout his life.
    • Believed violence was necessary for social change.
    • Face of the new black militant movement.

  • The Black Panthers were founded.

    The Black Panthers were founded.
    • Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded The Black Panthers.
    • They advocated the ownership of guns by African Americans.
    • Violence was the only way to bring social change.
    • One of the central aims of the BPP was to stop abuse by local police departments.

  • Black Panthers create the Ten Point Program

    Black Panthers create the Ten Point Program
    • The Ten Point Program was put in place to create equality, safety and end police brutality against blacks.
    • The Black Panthers created this list to demand rights for the black community.
    • The Black Panthers didn't really achieve anything, they just showed people that they were willing to stand up for their race.

  • Huey Newton's Manslaughter Trial

    Huey Newton's Manslaughter Trial
    • Newton was pulled over by an Oakland police officer on October 27th 1967.
    • Newton and two other Oakland police officers got into a gun fight, one of the officers died.
    • Newton was then sentenced in September 1968 for voluntary manslaughter.

  • Free Breakfast for Children Program and Fighting Police Brutality

    Free Breakfast for Children Program and Fighting Police Brutality
    • Started at St. Augistine's Church in Oakland, CA.
    • The Panthers would cook and serve food to the poor inner city youth of the area.
    • The Panthers would send armed citizens to patrol and evaluate the behavior of police officers.

  • J. Edgar Hoover and The Black Panther Party

    J. Edgar Hoover and The Black Panther Party
    • J. Edgar Hoover called the party "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country."
    • Hoover tries to undermine Panther activities by surveillance, infiltration, perjury, police harassment, and many other tactics.
    • Crippled the Black Panther Party with imaginative and hard-hitting counterintelligence measures

  • Major accomplishments of The Black Panthers

    Major accomplishments of The Black Panthers
    • The Black Panthers showed the US that they were willing to stand up for their people and against police brutality.
    • The Black Panthers created the Ten Point Program and the Breakfast for Children Program.
    • The programs they created ended not long after they were started.

  • What the Black Panthers continue to stand for

    What the Black Panthers continue to stand for
    • Continue to fight for more jobs for black people.
    • Starkly anti-white and and antisematic.
    • Black racist hate group.
    • Practice black supremacy undermining all civil rights efforts.