The Role Of Violence In The Black Panther Party

     Organized in the 1960s at the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party emerged as a revolutionist group pioneering a strategy of militancy. The Party’s aims were to eliminate the discrimination challenging African-Americans in America since the time of slavery, and to protect their communities from police brutality. Inspired by contemporary radical leaders such as Malcolm X, the party recognized that in order to restructure American society so that civil equality was obtainable by all people, a much stronger opposition was necessary. Party members felt the passive resistance adopted by their predecessors fighting for equality proved

Who would know that a ragtag group of a bunch of blacks would turn out to be the most influential black rights movement? A group so controversial that there are many perspectives of how the general public views them. The Black Panther Party strikes up an immense amount of controversy despite their inactivity of almost 35 years. From the law enforcement’s perspective, The Black Panther Party were viewed as radical criminals who randomly murdered innocent police officers. Though from the standpoint of many blacks of the time, they were viewed as heroes and martyrs, those who died and cared for their community. As James McBride vibrantly describes in his memoir, The Color of Water, his relationship toward The Black Panther Party was

Imagine it is the 1960’s: conflict in Vietnam had sparked widespread protest at American college campuses, people all over the country were reading the The Feminine Mystique and fighting for increased equality among the sexes, and the Civil Rights Movement was at its peak. African Americans throughout America were uniting for the common cause of equality, however differing ideology and beliefs regarding how equality could be achieved divided them. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X rose as prominent leaders in the fight against racial inequality, the latter typically credited with the development of more violent methodology which excluded white involvement and conceived the movement of “Black Power.” The Black Panthers, members of a political party formed by college students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, are typically associated with the idea of black power and the legacy of Malcolm X despite the fact that he had died a year prior to the party’s founding. While the idea of black power is easily and mis-conceivably associated with the idea of black supremacy and violence, The Black Panther Party primarily sought a spot for African Americans next to that of whites, not above. The Black Panther Party, despite its violent appearance and legacy, made a positive influence on American history through its platform based on equality, human rights, and patriotism.

The recollection of the Black Panther Party’s legacy more than often remains to linger on in the collective memory as a group of armed leather- clad radicals of the 1960’s. Although this memory is true, the Black Panther Party in actuality had more substance than just their attire. They were a political organization that reinforced human rights, they were leaders of self-defense against a police state that relentlessly brutalized black bodies, and caretakers of poor black communities that were receiving little to no attention by the state. They were an organization in bloom looking to create solidarity and heal within the black community by whatever means necessary. The Black Panther Party is believed to be a revolutionary force that has helped shape movements of today. Within this analysis we would like to unearth the history of the Black Panther Party including its origins, their struggles, ultimate demise, and contributions to movements of the contemporary world. We feel that it is important to rediscover this information because most of the occurrences that had appeared in the 1960’s against black bodies continues to this day. It is our duty to learn from our teachers, like those members of the Black Panther Party, in order to educate ourselves on how to create a better future. It all started in the fall of 1966 in Oakland California when two young intelligent black male students of Merritt Junior College questioned America’s ethics. These two young

In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale (African American Activists) founded the Black Panther Party for self-defense. The panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. The party was one of the first organizations in U.S. History to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation - a party whose agenda was the revolutionary establishment of real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines. “Black Panther is giving power to people who have not had the power to determine their destiny” (Huey Newton, 1).

The year 1968 was a significant moment in the postwar period as it witnessed the greatest social and political upheaval throughout the world. It is understood as a metaphor for the larger mobilization cycle that took place in the long Sixties and in the Seventies. The events of that year marked a turning point in the emergence of a cohort of young people comprising students and workers who had come confronting the established authority and social conventions. Embedded in anti-authoritarian and individualistic, libertarian and socialistic as well as democratic, anti-institutional, and anti-bureaucratic values, student groups and worker unions across organized protests and demonstrations against the established institutions of Western democracy,

The Civil RIghts group, the Black Panther Party (BPP), was formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California in 1966. Both of them were the leaders of the BBP. A major contributor for the start up the BPP were the assassinations of the Civil Rights Activists, Martin Luther King (MLK) and Malcolm X. Upon these assassinations this lead them to their self defense public stance.

Curbing police abuse was the main priory why Newton and Seale formed the Black Panther Party who were college students at that time. In October 1966, over 5,000 members joined the party. They party embraced Malcom X, but hated Martin Luther King, Jr. Bobby Rush, an U.S. Rep., states that "The Panther Party helped boarden the reach of the Civil Rights Movement" (Wahington Jr.).

The Black Panther Party: What We Want, What We Believe When African Americans achieved their freedom in 1865, many African American leaders that stoop up for black rights was on the rise. Many people today have heard of the great African American leaders (Malcom x and Martin Luther King) But what knowledge do the people of America know about the Black Panther Party? According to the Wikipedia, the Black Panther Party was a revolutionary Black Nationalist and socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. In other words, The Black Panther Party was a well-known organization that was formed to protect African Americans from discrimination, police brutality, and oppression.

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.

I wanted to write a reflection on the film The Black Panthers: The Vanguard of the Revolution documentary for a few different reasons, however, I think it is a good close to black history month. I first want to recognize how impactful The Black Panther party had on other black individuals. For example, The Black Panther party was tremendously impactful on black people in the community as well as worldwide. I think this is important to mention because during the civil rights struggle and still today people from the oppressed communities look up to organizations like this one. For me, it is quite remarkable how the party was founded by two gentlemen who were actively trying to put an organization together to fight harassment again police. This was so many years

The Black Panther Party for Self Defence (BPP) was a group of revolutionary black nationalists campaigning within one of the most provocative and dynamic political periods. The legacy of the BPP is controversial, often being characterised as the most influential black movement organisation of the late 1960s and the ‘strongest link between the domestic Black Liberation Struggle and global opponents of American Imperialism.’ However, contrasting views exist with some other commentators depicting the Party as criminal rather than political stating ‘images of defiant posturing over substance.’ Through the examination of the histories of the BPP considering their purpose, historical technique, type of history and the overall impact on the image of the party, three different movements in the representation of this period occur. The first works, including those accounts of Newton and Seale themselves, who were the co-founders of the party produced recounts focused on the individual experiences of the BPP and generally portrayed a positive view of the party, praising their actions and contributing to the characterisation of the party as a vanguard of late 1960s radicalism and as an organisation hounded by the Oakland Police (OP) and FBI. The second wave of accounts including the 1994 publication of Hugh Pearson’s history of the BPP emerged within the same period, in which a more negative interpretation of the Party’s decline was indicated and the faults of the party leader,

This article provides a brief overview of the history of student activism up to-and including-the 1970s. It emphasized how fervent and militant the movements were during different time periods. The focus of the article was on the militant 1960s and the passive 1970s. Altbach found that the lack of student activism in the 1970s was caused by the increase of religious organizations, the decreased population of college-age students, the presence of an economic recession, and the lack of political issues that lend themselves to activism. He also noted that there were no active conservative

The symbol to represent Black Power was a geode. I chose this because I think that the majority of the community looked at the Black Panther group as dangerous and destructive, just like a geode looks ugly and distractive on the outside. Also, just like a geode there are many things that the Black Panthers, and the whole Black Power movement in general did to benefit their communities. I think this connects with a geode because when you finally crack open a geode and look inside you'll find beautiful crystals that make the world a prettier place. I think this connects with number 8 of the Black Panther platform, “We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.”-Newton & Bobby Seale I think this

On October 15th, 1966, in Oakland, California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded The Black Panther Party. It was initially called The Black Panther Party of Self Defence, as its founders strongly believed that this black power movement was a vehicle by which the black race could exercise racial dignity and self-reliance.