Bobby Seale's Black Panthers

The Black Panthers is a group or a party of Aafrican Aamericans that was formed to protect blacks from the white law enforcements. The group was established in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The two leading revolutionary men created the national organization as a way to collectively combat white oppression. Dr Huey Percy Newton Born ( February 17 1942- August 22, 1989), Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana. He was the youngest of seven children of Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist lay preacher. His parents named him after former Governor of Louisiana Huey Long. In 1945, the family migrated to oakland, california as part of the second wave of the

In Oakland, California in October of 1966 Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale what was known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Newton and Seale were two African-American activists. It began as poor black people from the same community joining together and entwining in the same ideology. The Black Panther Party is considered the first organization in the history United States of America, to struggle militantly exert oneself for ethnic minority and working-class famishment. Bobby Hutton, seventeen years of age at the time was the first person to agglutinate himself as a Black Panther, aside Newton and Seale.

     The Black Panther had a huge background of history, goals, and beliefs. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Ca 1966, founded the Panthers. They were originally as an African American self defense force and were highly influenced by Malcolm X’s ideas. They were named after Lowndes County Freedom Organization or LCFO. The Panthers had many goals like; giving back to the ghetto, protecting blacks from police brutality, and to help blacks get freedom and jobs. They also had many beliefs like;

"The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense knew what they wanted. They were young. They were black. They couldn't be ignored. Their ten-point platform was just the beginning of an unforgettable period in the history of this nation's civil rights movement. By 1967 the Black Panthers had established themselves as a force to be reckoned with. Their ideas, their agenda, their fight for equality for African Americans, put these outspoken youth on the map of American politics." (Haskins) Almost 40 years ago, in 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale led a revolution that was driven in response to the oppression of black people. They sought to change that. Today, thanks to their fight for civil rights, extreme risks, and development of social needs,

When the Black Panther Party is mentioned in news or media outlets today, a large portion of the society automatically assumes the worst. According to Bobby Seale, Co-founder of the Black Panther Party, “Lies and misinterpretation perpetuated a violent image of the Black Panther Party that tells only half of the story” (The Oklahoman, 1). Because of the lack of information that is taught to the youth and the uneducated, it is easy to keep the violent portrayal alive. Many of the Black Panther critics use the carrying of guns, 1960’s shootouts, and the appraisal of Malcolm X to diminish the Black Panthers. However, what is usually left out of the media is the fact that the party consisted of Black Revolutionary

The Black Panther Party or BPP was founded 1966 in Oakland California. The cofounders of the Black Panther Party were Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Newton and Seale met when they were attending the merit college in Oakland, California (Hillard ix). The party was based on the teaching of Malcolm X. Malcolm X taught that force is the only way to defend oneself which related to a desired goal which was to liberate the African American community (Caprini 1).

The two founders of the Black Panther party, Hugo Newton and Bobby Seale, put in place a Ten Point Program. The Ten Point Program was created to show what they wanted change and what they were fighting for. It had the following demands, “We want freedom”, “We want the power to determine”, “We want full employment for our people”, “ We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black community”, “We want decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings”, “we want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society”, “we want all black men to be exempt from military service”, “we want an immediate end to police brutality, and murder of black people”, “we want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails”, “we want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peers or people from their black communities, as defined by the constitution of the United States”, and finally “we want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and

In learning the historical context of the BPP, the leadership of Bobby Seale and Huey Newton carries heavy significance. After seeing the police abuse, poverty, and need for self-determination after the Watts riots they saw the need for a new political formation. In such political formation, Seale and Huey took up arms and stood up against police making arrests.

Originally known as the Black Panther for Self Defense, the Black Panther Party was a socialist organization formed in California. They were active in mainly the United States for approximately twenty years during the late nineteen sixties to the later nineteen eighties. They also had a chapter in Algeria for three years, but this was their only international chapter. In the beginning, the parties main objective was to challenge the brutality by the police geared at african americans because they believed that the non-violent campaign that Martin Luther King, Jr. was unsuccessful and failing to get the job done( Seale, 3). They formed because they believed that the traditional way of protesting would not have any change or affect on their lifestyles in a soon enough time and they would do a better job of getting what they wanted.

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. The Black panther party want change, they would no longer stand by an watch black people being whipped with billy clubs, and have a nonviolent stance. The Oakland branch of the Black Panther Party would follow up on radio calls on hand held radio sets concerning police actives in the area. They would ensure Black people were not going suffer any long from police brutality, and would show up at police stops with rifles and shoots guns. It would intimidate the police from causing any harm from those black people they had detained, while in the presence of The Black Panthers.The F.B.I.'s "COINTELPRO" directed by J.Edger Hoover "purpose was to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize"cite(1) the Black Panthers.

The Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 by party members Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in the city of Oakland, California. The party was established to help further the movement for African American liberation, which was growing rapidly throughout the sixties because of the civil rights movement and the work of Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King. The Party disembodied itself from the non-violence stance of Dr. King and chose to organize around a platform for “self-defense”, (which later became part of the party’s original name). The party was established to help further the movement for African American liberation, which was growing rapidly throughout the sixties because of the civil rights movement and the work of Malcolm

BOULDER, Colo.—Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers Party and self-described “revolutionary humanist,” is coming to University of Colorado Boulder. This is following an event nearly one year ago when Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative agitator from the alt-right, stirred protests from a “lecture” titled “Why Ugly People Hate Me” in which he insulted women, people of color and other various marginalized groups.

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers Party for self-defense. In finding the Black Panther Party, Newton and Seale based the ideas and visions on the works of Malcolm X, a prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement, who had a “by any means necessary attitude”. “Malcolm had represented both a militant revolutionary, with the dignity and self-respect to stand up and fight to win equality for all oppressed minorities." Once they created the group Newton and Seale organized a mission statement, Ten Point Program, and a Uniform. The BP mission statement included: “[practicing] militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and [fighting] to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs" . The supplement Ten Point Program of the Black Panther Party included: Freedom, Full Employment, an end to robbery by the capitalists of black community, housing, education, exemption from military service, end to police, freedom for convicted blacks, wanting all people tried in court to be tried by jury of their peer group from black communities, and land, bread, clothing, justice, and peace.

In October of 1966, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton pooled their money from work and founded the Black Panthers Party in an Oakland California Storefront. As men of action and prompted by their disillusionment with the Capitalist Philosophy of Merritt colleges African American Student Association founder Donald Ward, Newton and Seale subsequently joined the SSAC under Ernie Allen which was a front for the (RAM) the Revolutionary Action Movement where they learned to be revolutionaries.

The Black Panther Party for Self Defence, later renamed ‘The Black Panther Party' was created by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966 in Oakland. The purpose of the party was to protect minorities, primarily African Americans, by patrolling neighborhoods looking for instances of police brutality. The party was created after the ruling of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka because economic and social inequality continued and limited the opportunities African Americans have. This along with the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965 caused the party to form.