B P PBlack Panther Party

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Oakland, CaliforniaSignificant place and eventThe Black Panther Party was Founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale on October 15, 1966.

Significant people and eventIn 1966, Newton and Bobby Seale where founded the left-wing Black Panther Party for Self defense. The organization was central to the Black Power movement, making headlines. Newton was killed by a member of another militant group in 1989.

Bobby Seale

Huey Newton

Significant eventOn 6th April Eight members of the black panther party where ambushed by the Oakland police, and were killed by the police.

New York city, New YorkSignificant place and eventThe Black Panther organizes demonstration and rally against the Vietnam war at the United Nations in 1967.

Significant eventIn 1968 Black Panther Party opens office in New York City.

Significant person and eventFred Hampton established a community service program on november 1968. This included the provision of free breakfasts for schoolchildren and a medical clinic that did not charge patients for treatment. Hampton also taught political education classes and instigated a community control of police project.

Fred Hampton

Significant personAlice Faye Williamsan African-American music businesswoman, she is the mother of the late rapper Tupas Shakur. She acted as her own criminal defense attorney after being accused of taking part in numerous bombings as a member of the Panthers

Los Angeles, CaliforniaSignificant place and eventThree Panthers are killed by Los Angeles police at a service station in 1968.

Significant eventIn 1968 Bobby Seale speaking at a meeting held by the Black Panther Party for the defense of Huey Newton. Meeting was held out the Kaleidoscope, Los Angeles. The Kaleidoscope was a largely white nightclub.

Significant eventOn may 1967 Black Panther Protest. Armed Panthers invade the capitol in California to protest legislation limiting their right to bear arms. They began carrying weapons due to California law allowing the carrying of shotguns or other rifles as long as they are not concealed or aimed at anyone.

Significant eventIn 1968 Shoot-out between police and panthers; two panthers killed

San Francisco, CaliforniaSignificant place and event500 people gather at San Francisco City Hall to protest arrest of sit-in demonstrators in 1964 at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel (in protest of unfair hiring practices) Significant person

Eldridge Cleaver spent a lot of his youth in reform school and prisons in California. He began writing while he was in prison. Freed on parole he joined the Black Panthers and published his prison essays in soul on Ice. In 1968, he fled the country to avoid a return to prison.

Eldridge Cleaver

Significant eventMarch 1968 Eldridge Cleaver publishes Soul on Ice, which becomes a best-seller.

Dallas, TexasSignificant place and eventIn 1989, a group calling itself the New Black Panther was formed in Dallas, Texas.

Sources APAInformation about the black panther party:BLACK PANTHER PARTY Pieces of History: 1966 – 1969 © 2004-2013 - It's About Time. Citation Information: Baggins, Brian. History of the Black Panther Party. Marxists Internet Archive 2002.© 2000-2013 History Learning the Black PanthersRules: the Author or by Viet Nam Generation, Inc., all rights reserved. This text may be used, printed, and archived in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. Copyright law.Significant peopleBobby Seale, A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale (New York, Times Books, 1978); Seale, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (New York, Random House, 1970); and Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003). Articles by Erica David / Alice Faye Williams BioFred Hampton Written by: John Simkin, September 1997 - June 2013Eldridge Cleaver 1996–2013 A+E Television Networks, LLC.Significant places & events2008-2013 FamentoSignificant places written by Adrian Wood & Nutan Rajguru A black panther’s guide to Oakland, BY JUSTIN ALLEN ~ JULY 26TH, 2011Jun 28, 1978 Regents of the University of California v. Bakke In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court rules that quotas for minority students in college admissions are unconstitutional.New Black Panther PartyAccess ADL. Retrieved 17 October 2013.U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, interim report, 11-23-2010London Sunday Times. March 16, 1997. Retrieved August 13, 2010