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Black Panther Party, or Black Panther Party for Self-defense, or Panther Party (American organization)
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American black revolutionary party founded in 1966 in Oakland, Calif., by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The party's original purpose was to patrol black ghettoes to protect residents from acts of police brutality. The Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group that called for the arming of all blacks, the exemption of blacks from the draft and from all sanctions of...
...of about 385,000 in 1950, began to drop, and inner-city areas were beset by poverty, urban blight, and crime. Racial tension grew in Oakland's large African American community, and the revolutionary Black Panther Party was founded there in 1966 and became a leading force in the black power movement. One of its members, Bobby Seale, ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1973; four years later Lionel...
...Baptist church, where he listened to moving testimonials of privation, struggle, and faith from parishioners whose grandparents had been slaves. Another influence on West during this time was the Black Panther Party, whose Sacramento offices were near the church he attended. The Panthers impressed upon him the importance of political activism at the local level and introduced him to the...
After being paroled, Cleaver met Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who had just founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif. Cleaver soon became the party's minister of information. The publication in 1968 of Soul on Ice, a collection of angry memoirs in which Cleaver traced his political evolution while denouncing American racism, made him a leading black radical spokesman. In April...
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American political activist, cofounder (with Bobby Seale) of the Black Panther Party (originally called Black Panther Party for Self-Defense).
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African-American political activist, founder, along with Huey Newton, and national chairman of the Black Panther Party. Seale was one of a generation of young African-American radicals who broke away from the traditionally nonviolent Civil Rights Movement to preach a doctrine of militant black empowerment. Following the dismissal of murder charges against him in 1971, Seale somewhat moderated...
Magazine and Journal Articles : By: Lum, Lydia. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2/8/2007, Vol. 23 Issue 26, p36-38
This article reveals that a handful of Asian Americans were heavily involved in the Black Panther Panty (BPP). One of them, Richard Aoki, was a friend of BPP founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and influenced their ideology and the contents of the famous Ten Point Platform. Aoki was among the first dozen BPP members, rising to field marshal status. During the same period, at least two Asian Americans in Seattle became Panthers as well. Reading Level (Lexile): 1280; By: Fickenscher, Lisa. Crain's New York Business, 2/28/2005, Vol. 21 Issue 9, p13-13
The article reports that Flores Forbes came to New York in 1987 to start a new life. The former member of the Black Panther party had served three years in prison in the early 1980s, for his involvement in a shootout in which another Panther lost his life. In December 2004, Forbes joined the Abyssinian Development Corp. in a newly created position. As chief strategic officer, he reports to Chief Executive Sheena Wright. Forbes' has been dealing with issues like housing since he earned his graduate degree in urban planning from New York University. Reading Level (Lexile): 1070; By: Smiles, Robin V.. Black Issues in Higher Education, 1/13/2005, Vol. 21 Issue 24, p28-28
Features Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, associate professor of history and director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Academic achievements of Ogbar; Efforts of Ogbar to study Afro-American power movements in the 20th century; Focus of Ogbar's dissertation. Reading Level (Lexile): 1160; By: Rogers, Ibram. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 6/29/2006, Vol. 23 Issue 10, p18-22
The article focuses on the Black Student Union (BSU) which was established in response to Black student activism in the U.S. The demands of the BSU are cited. It provides an insight on the future of BSU. A statement from Dr. Joy Ann Williamson, assistant professor of education at Stanford University and author of Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75, is presented. INSET: The Current State of Black Student Unions. Reading Level (Lexile): 1180; By: Tibbitts, Tim. Footsteps, Nov/Dec2004, Vol. 6 Issue 5, p24-26
This article profiles motion picture actor and director Melvin Van Peebles. Not too long ago the options available to black film actors were quite limited: The big screen had little room for African American main characters, and the African Americans who did appear on screen were often cast as domestic servants or street thugs of one variety or another. One of the people responsible for breaking that narrow thinking is writer, actor, and director Melvin Van Peebles. He opened the door to having the full range of African American life portrayed in the movies. Born in Chicago in 1932, Van Peebles spent most of his youth with his father, a tailor, in Phoenix, Illinois. Van Peebles' best-known film is Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Reading Level (Lexile): 1040; By: Crosby, Emilye. Georgia Historical Quarterly, Spring2007, Vol. 91 Issue 1, p108-111
The article reviews several books, including "The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement," by Lance Hill and "Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era," by Christopher B. Strain. Reading Level (Lexile): 1570;
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