Founder of the Black Panther Party Huey P Newton A Forgotten Legacy
In the late 1960's and early '70's posters of the Black Panther Party's co-founder, Huey P. Newton were plastered on walls of college dorm rooms across the country. Wearing a black beret and a leather jacket, sitting on a wicker chair, a spear in one hand and a rifle in the other, the poster depicted Huey Newton as a symbol of his generation's anger and courage in the face of racism and classism. He is the man whose intellectual capacity and community leadership abilities helped to found the Black Panther Party (BPP). Newton played an instrumental role in refocusing civil rights activists to the problems of urban Black communities. He also tapped the rage and frustration of urban Blacks in order to address social injustice. However, the FBI's significant fear of the Party's aggressive actions would not only drive the party apart but also perpetuated false information regarding the Panther's programs and accomplishments. In recent years, historians have devoted much attention of the early 1960's, to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and have ignored the Black Panthers. The Panthers and Huey P. Newton's leadership of the Party are as significant to the Black freedom struggle as more widely known leaders of the Civil Rights Movemen
Jones ( Black Classic Press: Baltimore, 1998,) 159. " Huey's ability and desire to develop his intellect and receive a college education while still identifying with his peers on the street played an influential role in his effective leadership in the Black Panther Party. COINTELPRO also attempted several assassination attempts on to Huey. Newton's sharp social analysis he formed an inclusive Party which united African Americans in a collective effort demonstrating a power that they didn't know existed within themselves. It is out of this change of the movements focus where Huey arrives at the idea for Black youth to openly display weapons. Branches of the Party in New York, Chicago and Oakland worked with gangs, trying to turn them away from violence and into community organizing . Hugh Pearson argues that the Panthers 'in your face' action has shaped the way police officers act in neighborhoods today . Most amazingly they proved that grassroots movements could make a difference, even when the US government resists against it. O'Neal's murder of Hampton earned him a $300.
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