Black Panther Party Essay -- Politics Race

The smuggled Panther c tout ensembleerMy survey paper for Assignment 4 is on the Black Panther Party. I willing discuss the rise and the fall of the Black Panther Party and how Huey Newton and Bobby Seale met. I will also discuss some of the goals of the Black Panther Party, the level-headed the party did for the black and poor communities. I will also discuss what they hoped to achieve from their movement.Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Oakland, California in 1966. The original name of the Black Panther Party was the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Huey Newton was illiterate when he graduated from high school. Newton taught himself how to read. Seale had served in the Air Force. Newton and Seale met while both were attending Merritt Junior College in 1965. After Newton attended Merritt Junior College he studied law at the San Francisco School of Law. At Merritt Junior College they organized a Soul Students Advisory Council. This Counci l was the first group to demand that African-American studies be include in the college curriculum. The two men split with the council when Newton and Seale deprivationed to bring a squad of Black youths on campus to perform drills in commemoration of Malcolm Xs birthday the year after his death. This is when they formed the Black Panther Party. Newton was the Partys Defense Minister and Seale was the Chairman. The Black Panther Party symbol, the panther, was adopted from an independent political party established by residents in Lowndes County, Alabama a year earlier. The symbol was chosen because the panther is a reigning image.To achieve their goals, Newton and Seale had a ten- bear down platform that demanded full employment, exemption of black men from the military and an end to natural law brutality among other things. The last point, point number ten was a summary of all of the other points. One of the main goals was to protect Black citizens against police brutality. Thei r message was self-defense. The Party originally preached ruby revolution as the only means of achieving black liberation. The party called on blacks to arm themselves for the liberation struggle. Huey Newton studied law and spoke up when the police violated the civil rights of Black concourse. He made sure the search warrants were legal. The Black Panther Party had their own patrols to monitor the activities of the police in Black nei... ...n leader was shot to death while standing in the doorway of his home. The murder has never been solved.The Black Panther Party Ten-Point System1. We destiny freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black community.2. We want the full employment of our people.3. We want an end to robbery by the capitalist of our black communities.4. We want suitable housing, fit shelter of human beings.5. We want education for our people that expose the rightful(a) nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our true history and our role in the present daysociety.6. We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people.8. We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.9. We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in a court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace.