lowed the wife, children, and sometimes the
             good friends of an inmate to board a bus and see the fight behind justice's walls.
             From the success of these programs in Oakland, the panthers quickly grew to 100
             branches and 40 chapters nation-wide. Scattered chapters were even founded
             internationally in Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. The chapters recruited anyone they
             could, with the average age being 19, which could look intimidating and had enough
             brains to speak up about what they wanted, while still following orders. This scared J.
             Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI during that time. He wasn't so much scared of the
             people themselves, but the influence that they were spreading to all the minorities
             everywhere. They were starting ideas that would ruin the nation. Catchy slogans, like
             "Cleaver for President," (Cleaver was one of The Party leaders) encouraged revolt. The
             panthers were often found trailing police in their black cars. They carried many cameras
             and law books, making sure that the law was dealt correctly.
             The unorthodox personality of the Party as a whole was also scared those who were
             opposed to it. According to Huey Newton, all of the panthers must have been crazy, as
             only crazy people can survive shootouts with the police. These shootouts, which were the
             only things that really scared the panthers as a whole, were often unwarranted. The police
             came and went as they pleased, disturbing whatever they could, while still staying in the
             overwhelming contentment of the courts. The panthers needed to keep up to par with
             their skills of handling these "visits," for, more often than not, they ended in a gunfight.
             Huey Newton often started fights with his members, a very unorthidox way of keeping
             ...