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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. For similarly named organizations, see Black panther (disambiguation) § Political organizations. Political party New Black Panther Party Chairperson Krystal Muhammad Founder Aaron Michaels Founded 1989 ; 36 years ago (1989) Headquarters Dallas, Texas, U.S. Ideology Black nationalism ...
Black Panther Party Free Food Program flier shows images of Black Panther female activists Angela Davis and Ericka Huggins with the title "10,000 Free Bags of Groceries" for the Black Community Survival Conference in March 1972. The Black Panther Party was involved in many community projects as part of their organization.
Alex Rackley (June 2, 1949 – May 20, 1969) [1] was an American activist who was a member of the New York chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP) in the late-1960s. In May 1969, Rackley was suspected by other Panthers of being a police informant.
Director Stanley Nelson said of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panthers were founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 and upon their founding had a relatively simple goal — stop police brutality.
The revolutionary Black Panther Party was founded 55 years ago this month and its ideals are not only still vital The post Black Panther Party ideals still resonate 55 years later appeared first ...
In 1970, while in prison, Seale was charged and tried as part of the New Haven Black Panther trials over the torture and murder of Alex Rackley, whom the Black Panther Party had suspected of being a police informer. Panther George Sams, Jr., testified that Seale had ordered him to kill Rackley.
The Black Panther Party (or BPP) was an African- American revolutionary organization active in the United States from 1966 to 1982. Founded in Oakland, California on October 15, 1966, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the party originally identified as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, and called for the protection of Black neighborhoods from police brutality.
On May 17, 1969, members of the Black Panther Party kidnapped fellow Panther Alex Rackley, who had fallen under suspicion of informing for the FBI. He was held captive at the New Haven Panther headquarters on Orchard Street, where he was tortured and interrogated until he confessed. His interrogation was tape recorded by the Panthers. [2]