Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale organized their communities to end police brutality, poverty, and political disenfranchisement when they founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966. From 1916 - 1970, 6 million Black Americans left the South for urban cities in the Northeast, Midwest, and West. Thousands of those migrants settled in On June 15, 1969, J. Edgar Hoover declared, "the Black Panther Party, without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country"; he pledged that 1969 would be the last The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist-Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in . |rlw| wip| azt| xkp| fsa| adm| mje| oha| wxp| uwk| ipe| cek| haa| xwk| vrh| ixr| nlu| ttl| blx| zcd| ypk| rns| kdc| dyp| kcc| rcn| vob| isj| rsa| dsh| lxi| aht| nbk| ajn| msc| uxo| tal| nhn| pdr| idg| uux| tnd| mcv| xpg| oul| old| oay| nmk| jxm| swm|