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The Ten-Point program was released on May 15, 1967, in the second issue of the party's weekly newspaper, The Black Panther. All succeeding 537 issues contained the program, titled "What We Want Now!." [2] The Ten Point Program comprised two sections: The first, titled "What We Want Now!"
Ten Point Program may refer to: Ten-Point Program (Black Panther Party), a set of guidelines to the Black Panther Party; PLO's Ten Point Program, the 1974 plan accepted by the Palestinian National Council for the liberation of Palestinian territory; Ten Point Programme for Reunification of the Country, a 1993 plan written by Kim Il-sung to re ...
The group created a Ten-Point Program, a document that called for "Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice and Peace", as well as exemption from conscription for black men, among other demands. [99] With the Ten-Point program, "What We Want, What We Believe," the Black Panther Party expressed its economic and political grievances. [100]
These writings were part of the party's Ten-Point Program. Also known as "The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Ten-Point Platform and Program", this was a set of guidelines to the Black Panther Party's ideals and ways of operation. Seale and Newton named Newton as Minister of Defense and Seale as the Chairman of the party. [21]
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.
The ten-point program and "White Panther State/meant" were also published in the Ann Arbor Sun, which was a newspaper founded by John Sinclair in November 1968. The newspaper was originally called the Detroit Warren-Forrest Sun before it was changed to the Ann Arbor Sun when Trans-Love Energies moved to Ann Arbor in 1968. [35]
The Ten Point Program was as follows: [5] We want freedom. We want to be able to control the destiny of Black and oppressed communities. We want full employment for our people. We want an end to the robbery by the capitalists, of our black and oppressed communities. We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
Just as the Black Panthers had adopted a Ten-Point Program, the Black Liberators adopted a five-point programme: That we be given a chance to prove ourselves as other men have done. That we gain enough living space to find ourselves and prove ourselves as full-fledged citizens. That we plan to do for ourselves in all areas of human living.