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    SSAC's rejection of "Brothers On the Block", eventually led to Huey and Bobby's resignation from the Campus Organization. Fed up with the increasing police brutality towards African Americans and the SSAC rejection of "Brothers On the Block", Huey and Bobby decided to form an organization to monitor police behavior in black neighborhoods and protect the rights of African Americans. This organization was the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). The Panthers stormed into American history in 1966

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    protesting and rioting in outrage, and President Johnson eventually realised laws were not enough. Action needed to be taken, and requests affirmative action from law officials to protect minorities. In 1966, the Black Panthers are founded by Bobby Seale and Huey

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    silence approach was not working. The only way the party felt they can be heard was to fight back with more than just their words. The Black Panther Party began in the late 1960s and was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. When creating the platform for the BPP, both Newton and Seale were not worry about provoking controversy within the ivory towers of the historical profession (Street 351). They were more worried about getting their word across. The creation of the BPP started because of the

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    King overall failed. Along with it, any change that would be brought through means of the civil rights movement that promised change would take excessively long to appear or not be introduced at all. The group was founded by Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale, who addressed for a revolutionary war. Though both foundered did not originate from the same background, both met in the early sixties while attending Merritt Junior College in West Oakland during an Afro-American Associations group (AAA). The

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    Black Panther Party was constructed after the creation of the KKK . The Black Panther Party is a spin off of the civil rights movement. They felt that the civil rights movement was too passive and they needed a better approach towards racism. Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, and Marriott Golose in 1966 in Oakland, California founded the movement to make a change in the African American community. Furthermore, the movement ended in 1982 but its legacy continues in the modern day and the Black Panther

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    dialectical materialism, requiring an examination of the end-goal to determine the means of societal change. This theorization of revolutionary action established the backdrop for the creation of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who drew from dialectical materialism and general Marxist-Leninist philosophy to

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    The Downfall of the Black Panther Party The Black Panther Party was the most influential revolutionary group during the Civil Rights movement era. The BPP became a very strong political power. It influenced many government decisions and attracted the mass media. Yet, due to a number of reasons the BPP eventually collapsed. The Black Panther Party came to its demise due to government operations against it, various mistakes by the Party itself, and by short comings by its own leaders.

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    THE FIRST recorded attempt by black people in Bogalusa, Louisiana to register to vote occurred in 1950. However, an organized civil rights movement did not begin there until 1965, when the all-black Bogalusa Civic and Voters League (the League) sought to test Bogalusa's compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. From the beginning, the efforts to organize protests and demonstrations against racial segregation and public exclusion were met with white violence. The first national civil rights organization

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    Historian Daryl Joji Maeda called the The Asian American movement “a multiethnic alliance comprising of all ethnicities by drawing on the discourses and ideologies of the Black Power and anti-war movements in the United States as well as decolonization movements around the globe.” By the 1960s, a new generation, less attached to the ethnic differences that plagued Asian immigrant groups, began to grow and work together. The black and white binary race treatment in the US alienated Asian-Americans

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    Mistakes In America

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    “You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.” --Bobby Seale. This is how America works, we are a very ethnically diverse community that must live in harmony in what can be described as the melting pot, in which we adopt each other's values and evolve as one nation. We must tolerate, cooperate and respect

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