Black Panther Party: The Black Panther Party

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It is October 15,1996 in West Oakland when the Black Panther Party started by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale met at the Merritt College. Black panther was inspire to take action when Malcolm X was assassinated and an unarmed teen name Matthew Johnson was killed by an San Francisco police. The group’s original purpose was to protect acts to police brutality. The black panther group later began to use marxist ideology (Duncan 1). Marxist is a theory created by Karl Marx, the theory is to outline philosophical views and political objectives in a Ten Point Program. Some examples, are employing African Americans, ending police brutality, and justice for all immediately. Even though Black panther was portrayed as

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