Black History Month

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The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African American organization founded to promote civil rights and self-defense. It was active within the United States in the late 1960s into the 1970s.

Black Panthers (1968) part 1

Founded in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in October 1966, the organization initially espoused a doctrine calling for armed resistance to societal oppression in the interest of African American justice, though its objectives and philosophy changed radically throughout the party's existence. While the organization's leaders passionately espoused socialist doctrine, the party's black nationalist reputation attracted an ideologically diverse membership base, such that ideological consensus within the party was difficult to derive, and differing perspectives within the party base often clashed conspicuously with those of its leadership.
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The group was founded on the principles of its Ten-Point Program, a document that called for "Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice And Peace," as well

as exemption from military service that would utilize African Americans to "fight and kill for other people of color in the world who, like Black people, are being victimized by the White racist government of America."

Link to RBG Full Historical Tour / Annoted Pictures Lecture

Chairman Fred & BPP Min of Culture Emory Douglas 6/12/07

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee will be having a open public discussion wit' Black Panther Party Minister of Culture Emory Douglas about revolutionary art, the counter-intelligence program, and the history and legacy of the Black Panther Party and how it relates to the work of the POCC today. This event will take place on Tuesday, June 12th at 7pm at the Black New World, 836 Pine St., in the Bottoms of West Oakland. No one will be turned away because of lack of funds.

For background study see:
Emory Douglas Revolutionary Art

Link to RBGz BPP Classroom: