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Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton first meeting
During the protest of JFK's Naval Blockade of Cuba the pair had become friends after previously crossing paths during Afro-American Association (AAA) meetings. https://caamuseum.org/learn/600state/black-history/blackhistory-on-october-15-1966-bobby-seale-and-huey-p-newton-form-the-black-panther-party-in-oakland-california -
Police Shooting of Matthew Johnson protest
2 black teenagers tried to evade a police officer named Alvin Johnson after he suspected the pair of stealing a car. After a foot chase and several warnings, the police officer shot Matthew Johnson in the back. Officer Johnson would claim it was an accident, but eyewitnesses contradicted Officer Johnson's statement saying he purposely shot Matthew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunters_Point_social_uprising_(1966)#Shooting_of_Matthew_Johnson -
Founders of the Black Panther Party
2 students of Merritt College in Oakland CA Huey Newton, and Bobby Seale, started protesting the college's Pioneer Day.
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COINTELPRO
Hoover's FBI creates counterintelligence program to infiltrate, exploit, and destroy the (BPP).
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FBI Declares Black Panther Party (BPP) National Security Threat
In 1969, the FBI declared the Black Panthers a communist organization and an enemy of the United States government. The first FBI’s first director, J. Edgar Hoover, in 1968 called the Black Panthers, “One of the greatest threats to the nation’s internal security.”
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David Hilliard
advocates violent revolution, (BPP) membership is down significantly from the late 1968. Hilliard took command of (BPP) Sep. 1968. Linked to murders, shootouts, he also threatens President Nixon's life, was later acquitted. Was also convicted for having a connection with a shootout with Oakland Poilice.
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1968 Olympics Mexico City
African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the US national anthem. The demonstration is regarded as one of the most overtly political statements in the history of the modern Olympics. -
Internal Violence (Alex Rackley)
Alex Rackley was murdered in Middlefield CT, after being tortured and held captive,in New Haven CT, he was suspected of being a police informant by other (BPP) members -
Killing of Fred Hampton
Chicago Police fired 80 shots during a raid killing both men. The only shot fired by (BPP) members was by Mark Clay who was convulsing, after he was fatally shot in the chest at the start of raid. -
Black Panther Party Dismantles
Due to FBI, internal conflicts, drug abuse, and police raids the (BPP) is dismantled, after lead members end up incarcerated or are completely exhausted from fighting internal issues and the establishment.
https://www.theperspective.com/subjective-timeline/politics/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-black-panthers/