The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle to gain full citizenship rights for Blacks and to gain racial equality. The goals of the civil rights movement was to end segregation, the system of laws and separating of blacks and whites that whites used to...

A Taste of Brown: A Black Panther's Movement CritiqueAnd, we sat and we talked About freedom and things. And, he told me about what he dreamed. But I knew of that dream Long before he had spoke And a feeling familiarly came around.I said, Man, where have you been for all these years Man, w...

Guns, Social Welfare, and Revolution: The Black Panther Party In late September of 1966, at a small poverty center in North Oakland, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale began to draft the Ten-Point Platform and Program, thus creating the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. From this creation rose a c...