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  • 28 Other Police Black Panther Murders
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    THE BLACK PANTHERS The Black Panthers, an organization of radical and political views, was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale's original goal when they first founded this organization was to protect the African American's from police actions that many blacks considered brutality. When they first established this group, it was named the Black Panther Party. This Self Defense label did eventually drop from their name not to long after the organization became kno...
  • Amiri Baraka Black Power Politics
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    Founded in 1965 by Ron Karenga, US emerged in Southern California shortly after Watts exploded into a riot and Malcolm X was assassinated. As nationalist sentiment grew among African American organizations because of the impact of Malcolm X, US established itself as a cultural nationalist group. It called for racial unity and for black people to free themselves from white oppression by embracing a 'recovered' African culture. For US, that meant Kawaida, a quasi-religious system of beliefs and ri...
  • Black Panthers
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    BLACK PANTHERS In 1966, the national Black Panther party was created. Their platform and it's ideals struck blacks across the country, especially in the inner cities of the north. The Panthers were able to organize and unite these blacks. This alarmed the federal government. They instituted many controversial, illegal programs of harassment, infiltration, and instigation which led to the deaths of many Panthers. From their inception, the Black Panthers were treated with contempt. The Panthers wr...
  • 761st Black Panther Tank Battalion
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    The 'Black Panther' Tank Battalion The 761st 'Black Panther' Tank Battalion was the first African-American armored unit to see combat. Before and during mobilization for World War II, officials in Washington, D.C., debated whether or not African-American soldiers should be used in armored units. Many military men and politicians believed that blacks did not have the brains, quickness or moral stamina to fight in a war. Referring to his World War I experiences, Colonel James A. Moss, commander of...
  • Member's Of The Black Panther
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    "Black Power", the word alone raises an abundance of controversial issues. Black power was a civil rights movement led by the black panthers which addressed several issues including segregation and racism. Black power had a different meaning to every member of the Mc Bride family, Ruth and James both looked at black power from a different angle. In "The Color of Water", The author James Mc Bride admired the black panthers at first, but slowly he grew afraid of them after fearing the consequences...
  • Downfall Of The Black Panther Party
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    'There is nothing more dangerous than a large segment of people in society that feel that they have no place or stake in it, who feel they have nothing to lose. People who have stake in the society perpetuate that society, when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it. ' Unknown As a culture, we are told how to act, think, and speak among other things. We are taught to do what is considered 'right' and if we choose not to, we are punished, ridiculed, and considered a menace to s...
  • Black Panthers
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    The Black Panthers aren't talked about much. The Panthers had made a huge difference in the civil rights movement. They were not just a Black. They helped revolutionize the thought of African Americans in the U.S. The Black Panther had a huge background of history, goals, and beliefs. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, Ca 1966, founded the Panthers. They were originally as an African American self defense force and were highly influenced by Malcolm X's ideas. They were named after Lownde...
  • Black Panthers
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    Black Panther Party for Self Defense The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in October 1966, in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Armed with sincerity, the words of revolutionaries such as Mao Tse-Tung and Malcolm X, law books, and rifles, the Black Panther Party fed the hungry, protected the weak from racist police, and presented a Ten Point Platform and Program of Black political and social activism. Its 'survival programs'-such as food giveaways, free health...
  • Black Panther Party Black Panther Party
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    Nazism "Death seemed to guard all exits". This motto defined the death of millions of Europeans between 1941 and 1945. As Nazi Germany gained control of one country after another in World War II, there was much killing of civilians of soldiers that can be classified as war crimes. These crimes, however, pale in comparison to the massive, deliberate, and well-planned extermination of more than 15 million persons in what is called the Holocaust. This genocide of staggering proportions was carried ...
  • Viable Populations Of The Florida Panther
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    The Florida Panther is one of about thirty subspecies of felis con color. The subspecies, cory i is one of the most rare endangered animals in the world. It has been federally listed as endangered since 1967, and is currently at 50 to 70 individuals in the wild. Though this is an increase in panther population in the last 8 years the future of the Florida Panther is still greatly at risk". Projected populations, assuming the present conditions, indicate that the species may be completely extinct...
  • Hunting Times Of The Black Panther
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    The Black Panther is one of the most aggressive and feared animals of the world. The reason for this is because they are ten times stronger than any human is. They are capable of killing animals up to twelve hundred pounds then dragging it thirty feet into a tree before eating it. They can drag this animal while it is still live so one can imagine just how strong a black panther is. Black panthers can jump as high as eighteen feet straight up in the air and thirty feet in a single leap. They can...

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