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The Ten-Point Program was ultimately unsuccessful, though it played a meaningful role in the development of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1960s. The Ten-Point Program also influenced the political outlook of those who came of age in the post-civil rights era and the hip-hop generation.
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. [102] With the Ten-Point program, "What We Want, What We Believe," the Black Panther Party expressed its economic and political grievances. [103]
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.
Mark Clark (June 28, 1947 – December 4, 1969) was an American activist and member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). Clark was instrumental in the creation of the enduring Free Breakfast Program in Peoria, as well as the Peoria branch’s engagement in local rainbow coalition politics, primarily revolving around the anti-war movement. [4]
Kent Ford was born in 1943 near Maringouin, Louisiana. [1] At the age of 12 he moved to Redmond, California with his three siblings, mother, and her husband. [1] [2] At the age of 18 he had his first brush with police in California when he was arrested and jailed for three days for going 60 mph in a 45 mph zone. [2]
When he was 12, Ervin joined the NAACP youth group and participated in the sit-in protests that helped end racial segregation in Chattanooga. He was drafted during the Vietnam War and served in the army for two years, where he became an anti-war activist.
Veronza Leon Curtis Bowers Jr. (born February 4, 1946 [1]) is a former member of the Black Panther Party.He was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted by a jury on the charge of first degree murder of U.S. park ranger Kenneth Patrick at Point Reyes National Seashore in 1973.