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Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American revolutionary and political activist who founded the Black Panther Party.He ran the party as its first leader and crafted its ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale in 1966.
Huey Newton allegedly killed officer John Frey in 1967, and Eldridge Cleaver (Minister of Information) led an ambush in 1968 of Oakland police officers, in which two officers were wounded and Panther treasurer Bobby Hutton was killed. The party suffered many internal conflicts, resulting in the murder of Alex Rackley.
Newton, 8 Cal. App. 3d 359 (Ct. App. 1970), was a controversial appeal arising from the voluntary manslaughter conviction of Huey P. Newton, the reputed co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, co-founder. Killed in 1989. [41] Kojo Nnamdi, radio host who was a member from 1968 to 1969 in Brooklyn. [42] [43] Jalil Muntaqim, former political prisoner. Salim Muwakkil, journalist. Kiilu Nyasha, journalist. Sekou Odinga, activist. Charlotte Hill O'Neal, community organizer.
Huey P. Newton, 47, American political activist, founder of the Black Panther party, probable murderer, murdered. [95] Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, 96, Indian musician. Gerhard Reinhardt, 73, East German politician and German Resistance fighter. Vlasta Vraz, 89, Czech-American relief worker, editor and fundraiser. [96]
Cleaver was wounded during the clash and Black Panther member Bobby Hutton was killed. As editor of the official Panthers' newspaper, The Black Panther, Cleaver's influence on the direction of the party was rivaled only by founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Cleaver and Newton eventually fell out with each other, resulting in a split that ...
The Shadow of the Panther: Huey P. Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0201483416. Edited by Judy Clavir and John Spitzer. The Conspiracy Trial: The extended edited transcript of the trial of the Chicago Eight. Complete with motions, rulings, contempt citations, sentences and photographs.
According to other authors, Huey Newton allegedly confessed to a friend that he had ordered Van Patter's murder, and that Van Patter had been tortured and raped before being killed. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Christopher Hitchens wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2003 that: "There is no doubt now, and there was precious little then, of the Panther leadership ...