ProfessorDoxus Posted May 22, 2013 Posted May 22, 2013 I think something I may start posting all of my papers and essays here when I'm done with them. I'm in 8th grade, so if they don't go too much below the surface, don't be surprised, here's a paper on the Black Panther party I wrote for class. The Black Panther Party, By ******** In 1966 California, a movement was started by recent jailbird, Huey P. Newton, and 5 other members created a movement based of a principal of Marxism and Black Pride, titled the Black Power Movement for Self-Defense. The six founding fathers of the movement were Elbert Howard, Huey P. Newton, Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale, Reggie Forte, and Little Bobby Hutton. The organization was based on the militant protection and organized establishment of a Marxist-Socialist revolution in the US. Even selling Mao Zedong’s “Mao’s Red Book” in order to procure Shotguns (California law stated that you could have a shotgun out in public as long it was clearly visible.) From there they managed to write out their political and social commands in their “10 Point Plan”, which stated that they, in short, wanted community control over the modern industry, the ending of what they saw as victimization by the government, and the ending of what they felt was victimization by the capitalist system. The Black Panther Party managed to become well known and recognized in the community, and the FBI, becoming what J. Edgar Hoover said was “The greatest threat to national security”, and later ranking high on an FBI watchlist. They also started a program called the “Free Breakfast for School Children”, which, within years time of it starting, helped fill the stomachs of 10,000 strong. However, things began to degenerate within the party, due to ideological disagreements and Huey P.’s drug addiction, he is later killed in Oakland, CA in a drug dispute. Original founding father Bobby Seale resigned from internal leadership, and the rest falls apart. Many regard the Black Panther Party as a violent terrorist organization, and many others regard it as a confederacy of the disenfranchised minority of America. Regardless of your opinion on their tactics, they DID help pave the way for organizations like The Peace and Freedom, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and movements in the like of Cesar Chavez and his labor movement. One other thing is certain, the Black Panther Party will be remembered as crusaders in the civil rights and protest movement.
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