The Black Panthers
The 1960’s had a way of dividing the African American community in many directions. While the Civil Rights movement fostered a non-violent approach to integration, the Black Power movement, and specifically the Black Panthers spoke encouraged the oppressed to express “outrage at the oppressor.1” The Black Power movement of the 1960’s was characterized by a fight for racial dignity and self reliance. One of the groups of the Black Power movement was Black panthers, whose views on violence made a controversial issue with figures involved with the Civil Rights movement and later with the figures of the American government at the time.
The Black Panthers were formed by college friends Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale who were frustrated by groups that spoke of change but lacked “a connection to the streets.”1 The two wrote “an agenda dubbed the Ten-Point Program, which listed as goals everything from affordable housing and universal healthcare to full employment and......
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