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What comes to your mind when you think of the mission of the Black Panther Party? Do you even know who the Black Panthers truly were? Well, the fact is that many people do not the answers to either of these questions. It may be due to the fact that the history text book failed to go into the Black Panther Party in detail as they did in many other great historic revolutionist and revolutionary events. In the following essay I will be discussing the journey of Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the founders of the Black Panther Party, showing the events that took place in their lives. I will also be discussing what the mission of the Black Panther Party was in their stand to make the government accept the responsibility poverty in urban …show more content…

(H.P Newton 111) When the students would attend the meetings they would drink wine and discuss political issues that effected them. All of them agreed strongly in the view of Malcolm X of “Obtaining freedom by any means necessary”. In their meetings they also discussed the readings that they had done, such as Che Guevara’s Guerilla Warfare and the four volumes of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. All of the reading they had done was of people who were veterans of people’s …show more content…

By 1966 they began to inform African-American people around the Bay Area about what the Black Panther Part for Self Defense would do for the community. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense was being created at this time for self defense for the community against what Huey called “arrogant, belligerent police officers”. (H.P Newton 114) Upon the party being created Huey came up with the defined program it is now known for. This program was the Ten-Point Program titled “WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE BELIEVE”. This program showed the government what the poor black communities in the Bay Area wanted the government to implement in their everyday lives in their rundown

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