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Newton focused the BPP on the Party's Oakland school and various other social service programs. In early 1971, the BPP founded the "Intercommunal Youth Institute" in January 1971, [135] with the intent of demonstrating how black youth ought to be educated. Ericka Huggins was the director of the school and Regina Davis was an administrator. [136]
Mark Comfort married a white woman, Gloria Black (Oakland, California, July 16, 1937 – Klamath Falls, Oregon, October 11, 2010), on March 27, 1953, in Oakland. Mark's wife was once blocked from entering a Black Panther Party (BPP) office by a Panther member. Bobby Seale, BPP co-founder, told that member, "Are you stupid? Let her into that ...
Oakland is home to Black rights organizations, such as the Black Panther Party (1966–1982). [4] [1] Students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party in 1966 at Merritt College (then located at a former high school on Grove Street, now occupied by Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute), which emphasized Black nationalism, advocated armed self-defense against ...
The African People's Socialist Party (APSP) is a pan-Africanist political party in the United States. ... In 1982, the APSP held its party congress in Oakland.
Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale, founders of The Black Panther Party pictured in Oakland, CA. 1971 The flyer was released in June 1970, and it informs about the October 1970 opening of the new location of the party's free breakfast program for children.
In October, 2016, the Oakland Museum of California, in cooperation with about 100 former members of the Black Panther Party, organized an exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the party. [11] The exhibit ran through February, 2017 and was called " All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50". [12]
The Black Panther Party was an African-American left-wing organization advocating for the right of self-defense for black people in the United States. The Black Panther Party's beliefs were greatly influenced by Malcolm X. Newton stated: "Therefore, the words on this page cannot convey the effect that Malcolm has had on the Black Panther Party ...
People v. 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 .