Black Panthers Research Paper

The establishment of the Oakland’s Black Panther party for Self-Defense in October 1966 was the mark of an important breakthrough in Bay Area radicalism. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. In Huey Newton’s autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide situated the origin of the Oakland Panthers inside the postwar history of flight, outcast, and internal migration of millions of African Americans: “The great exodus of poor people out of the South during World War II sprang from the hope for a better life in the big cities of the North and West. In search of freedom, they left behind in the centuries of southern cruelty and repression… The Black communities of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Newark, Brownville, Watts, Detroit

In “The Black Panther Platform: What We Want, What We Believe,” Huey Newton and Bobby Seale use intersectionality and contradiction to criticize several structural obstacles that facilitated unfair treatment of black people. Some of these injustices included inequalities in basic necessities like housing and education, the economic exploitation of black people in a capitalist society, and military, judicial, and police targeting of black people. Hegemonic ideologies had been dictating the lives of black people for centuries, and the Black Panther Party was a revolutionary socialist party founded in 1966 during the Civil Rights Movement that sought to promote the counter-hegemonic movement in favor of civil liberties. The ideologies that the

Because the Black Panthers felt society and government were withholding African-Americans from social progress, they took some matters into their own hands. They promoted more just

The black panthers soon became the most influential revolutionary national organization in the U.S. The Panthers initiated many programs for residents in the ghetto. It wasn’t long before they were considered a threat to social order. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began targeting and raiding The Black Panther Party, in the process many were assassinated, imprisoned, or exiled . Due to the crack cocaine epidemic in the 1980s and extreme gang violence, The Black Panther Party began to lose impact on the population.

Most of their goals were shared by other Black Power leaders such as Martin Luther King jr., however, the Black Panthers were prepared to use violence to get what they believed in. Furthermore many Black Panthers were arrested, yet, unlike nonviolent protesters who accepted their jail time and try to help from behind bars. they organized rallies and protests to free their member in jail. To help with some of their goals the Black Panthers organized activities in the surrounding communities. They gave free breakfast to children, shoes, and legal aid.

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

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,

Although the group was willing to resort to and known for is violence, it was not the only means they tried to reach their goals of helping African Americans. They were serious and focused when it came to their projects; they even had a ban on alcohol and drugs when doing things for the party (“Black Panthers” American). The BPP had self-help programs for members to better themselves and a program called the Free Children’s Breakfast Program that did exactly what the name

The main goal of the Black Panther Party was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from police brutality using mainly violence to get their way. The Black Panther Party started as a small political organization

The Black Panther Party was a prominent political organization that operated from 1966 to 1982, born out of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s and advocated for equal rights and economic opportunities for African-American communities. While the party did originate in California, influential chapters spread out across the United States beyond California, including major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Chicago. With the party so widespread and with a great amount of people involved, it allowed for problems to arise within the communities they reached and within the party itself. These issues, both internal and external, lead to the eventual fall of the Black Panthers. The collapse

impacts What impacts did the movement have? How can we assess its relative success or failure at achieving its objectives?Much of the Black Panthers' legacy is steeped in misinformation or exaggeration. Within the white establishment and among many former and current members of the Left, The Black Panthers are too often dismissed as an anti- white collection of small-time criminals moti- vated by a combination of self-interest and na- ive left-wing politics, whose reputation and influence was largely the result of the extensive media coverage they received. Among blacks, the party is taken more seriously, but the extent to which the party's demise was orchestrated by government repression and violence is often overstated. Both images, while selectively rooted in fact, oversimplify what is a complex and often inconsistent history.

     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

The Black Panthers aren’t talked about much. The Panthers had made a huge difference in the civil rights movement. They were not just a Black KKK. They helped revolutionize the thought of African Americans in the U.S.

It was hard to find viewpoints from non-African American individuals. Anyone who was of white ethnicity that I found was not certified historians, only people who viewed the Panthers in a very racial viewpoint. The papers that I did read by white individuals was very racists and consisted of harsh insults towards the group.

The Black Panther Party had a great deal of negative outlooks portrayed on them by not everyone, but more than half of the society. Without a doubt, the Black Panther Party addressed multiple situations with violent acts that implemented negativity towards them. The late Martin Luther King believed that he could obtain equality without having to use violence as a lament, instead the Black Panther’s believed that King’s non-violence movement had failed, and that violence was necessary to get through to the people who saw black communities and minority groups as insignificant. Although, the Black Panther Party only granted membership to African Americans, they weren’t anti-white, the Black Panther Party considered themselves