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Summarize The Goals Of The Black Panther Party

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In your own words, summarize the goals of the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party was an African America revolutionary group formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale with a focus on promoting self-defense, black power, and prevent black suppression. This organization inspired equality and freedom for the black population. It has furthered awareness of the movements resistance and their dress code became easily recognizable and iconic. Police brutality against black was a major issue the organization was built upon and an example of this police brutality was the killing of Bobby Hutton. Bobby Hutton was a 17-year-old who was shot multiple times by police after he had proved to not be armed. “Blacks had begun to mount the first serious challenge to such circumstances since the reconstruction period immediately following the Civil War, Hoover and his proto-FBI organization, I kind of white vigilante formations, seem to have seen one of their primary missions as keeping blacks “in their place” by whatever repressive means were available.” The arrest of Newton was also a …show more content…

The Black Panthers sectioned what they wanted as a group into sections of 10 points and those wants are:Freedom,decent housing, education, black men to be exempt from military service, immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people, freedom for all black men held in federal,state, county and city prisons and jail, All black men to be brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the constitution of the united states, and

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