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Black Panther Party Research Paper

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After the creation of the Ku Klux Klan, one of the most vicious and racist groups that the United States has ever seen, a new group was formed to counteract their hatred: the Black Panther Party. In October of 1966, the leaders of this group, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton of Marrit College in Oakland, California, saw the Civil Rights movement as being too passive and decided to form a more reactionary group, to combat the racism and oppression that they experienced in Oakland (Ware, par. 1-2). Eventually, the group evolved into one that emphasized “black love” and programs to better their community. Stereotypically, the Black Panther Party is associated with violence, almost to the same level as the KKK. This is due to the fact that they sought to protect their communities from racists via an armory of guns and weapons in their homes. Also, the symbol of the Black Panther Party is a black man with a gun, …show more content…

Due to the socialist economic beliefs that they held so dear to them, the ideas that state that everyone should have free access to free housing, education, and healthcare, they built multiple hospitals for their communities and began that tradition of the “free lunch program.” The Black Panther Party was an organization that truly served to build up the communities of African Americans and protect them from racist cops and others with racist beliefs. Unfortunately, they are often only remembered for their violent streak, which was created by government officials in order to convince Americans to fear the Black Panther Party and shut it down by limiting its membership abilities. Unlike other Civil Rights movement groups that only emphasized equality due to race, the Black Panther Party also emphasized equality due to class. In fact, they would teach their members Marxist and socialist traditions and thinking (Ware, par.

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