The Black Panther Party For Self-Defense (BPP)

The party looked at the government as racist people that has robbed Blacks of their worth. Decent housing that is comfortable for the Black community was requested so that their people can remain in the comfort they deserve. The fifth point was the need for education, the type of education that was wanted were the teachings of African American history. The party also wanted all black men to be exempted from military service for these following reasons, they didn’t believe that black people should be forced to fight for a racist government and that it is also unfair to put their life at risk when the government doesn’t protect black people. The biggest point that the party requested was an end to police brutality and murder of black people.

In contrary to peaceful protest and marches led by Martin Luther King there were other leaders who had more radical approaches to protest. Amongst these radical leaders are Malcolm X, Robert Williams, and the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers, a group created by in 1966, by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale protected black communities patrolling areas with loaded firearms, monitoring police activities involving blacks. Since they were known for carrying loaded firearms FBI Director J Edgar Hoover considered the Black Panthers “the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States” (To Determine the Destiny of Our Black Community). The Black Panthers created the Ten-Point Program.

was a powerful figure in the history of civil disobedience and left lasting impacts on our society. While Antigone, important in literature, was no more then the cursed daughter of Oedipus doomed like her father to be rash and selfish. It was not Antigone’s but MLK’s version of civil disobedience that made had the most profound impact; he helped end segregation and racial injustice in America through non-violence and self-enlightenment. MLK fought for justice for all and fought to insure the rights of future African

The Black Panthers were a Black Power group that wanted equality for everyone. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense helped shape the Civil Rights movement immensely. Who they were, what their core beliefs were, and how they shaped the Civil Rights movement, and America today will be covered. The Black Panthers were originally started by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.

Mississippi Burning is a film directed by Alan Parker that is a dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan 's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. In order to apprehend the criminals the FBI take on unethical behaviour, this film makes you ponder on a particular philosophy; does the end justify the means? I believe that the end does not justify the means as there is no justification for unethical or immoral behaviour no matter what the end result may be. When Anderson is desperate to solve the case he takes on an unethical approach and uses an operative, by taking this approach Anderson makes it so that he is no better than the other criminals in Mississippi. This method of obtaining information by using coercion proves to be effective as he is able to gather valuable

The Black Panthers were, as society would best describe, a violent organization with good intentions. Their mechanism of communication was violent which reflected on the image that they held. They believed that non violence would diminish the movement of civil rights. As a result their method was to galvanize those in power to change laws for the benefit of black citizens. Though the organization was “the number one threat to the internal security of the United States” stated by J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, The Black Panthers only set out to change circumstances for the better.

Malcolm X believed that this distinction was important because it made civil rights issues the issues for all of mankind, which meant that it could not be ignored by anybody because it "didn 't involve them". B) The philosophy of black nationalism signified many things in the 1960s. It could mean anything from pride in one 's community to a belief in total separatism, from creating African American-owned businesses to wearing dashikis in honor of African traditions. Black Nationalism though historically speaking has been the emphasizing the difference between blacks and whites as well as the black people 's power or right to shape their own destiny.

Alicia Garza: co-creator of the #BlackLivesMatter movement (BLM) advocates that -“Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean your life isn’t important – it means that Black lives, which are seen as without value within White supremacy, are important to your liberation. Given the disproportionate impact state violence has on Black lives, we understand that when Black people in this country get free, the benefits will be wide-reaching and transformative for society as a whole. When we are able to end the hyper-criminalisation of Black people and end the poverty, control and surveillance of Black people, every single person in this world has a better shot at getting and staying free. When Black people get free, everybody gets free.” (The Conversation,2017).

Many wonder how a minority group like the African American community were able to achieve their goals with all the hate that they were presented with. Starting with an force immigration that made them become slaves, to having to fight to be free from slavery and now having to fight for their rights of equality. If it was not for Movements like the Civil Right Movement, the Black Power Movement and the Black Life Matter movement that helped to let the African American voice to be heard and to help improve the hardship and disaster they were presented with. The Civil Right Movement was about fighting to end segregation, that was affecting the education and equality to the African Americans community. After the battle against segregation was ending the African American population began The Black Power movement which was about having equality with the involvement in politics and the American Economy, and was lead by The Black Panther.

QUOTATION While Gandhi aimed to independent his country from the Britain colonial. The last effect is the method of activism. Gandhi was the first who used the non-violence activism and had success in using it, although King was inspired by Gandhi’s activism and he applied it in his struggles. To sum up the three differences of the effects of King and Gandhi are: the struggles of Gandhi were for his own country, but the struggles of King was for the whole world who suffered from the elemental discrimination, their efforts, and the way of the

Dissertation First Chapter Draft: Violence between BP and different groups (US and Blackstone Rangers) and my argument that it revealed a lack of structure of control in the federal government and a disregard for federal and constitutional law by the FBI: On September 9, 1968, Director Hoover wrote in the pages of the New York Times, that the Panther’s are regarded as “the greatest [single] threat to the internal security of the country”, Hoover’s intention in this was to increase the tension and instability that had been sown in the ranks of the Black Panther’s even since the initiation of COINTELPRO-Black Hate in 1967. Hoover, and in effect the FBI, wished to create social unrest, part of this unrest was the incitement of violence between

Black Lives Matter was formed in 2012 in response to Trayvon Martin’s murder. Once George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, black communities came together to actively resist the dehumanization of black males and females. Black Lives Matter is a call to action and a response to the fatal anti-Black racism that saturates our society, and paralyzes growth of the African American success. Black Lives Matter is more than just an organization that tells blacks to support each other and stop black on black crime, or even police brutality. But Black Lives Matter movement is meant to encourage individuals to stand together against inequalities against black people.

The impact of the Black Panther Party and their Ten-point program on the civil Rights Movement The black Panther Parties views were greatly different from that of the civil rights leaders at that time. During the rousing of Malcolm X 's assassination, the massive Black urban uprising in Watts, California and with Martin Luther King Jr., with being the sole leader of the civil rights movement, embracing a Nonviolent approach to the situation. Being amongst those the facing constant threat of police brutality, Ku Klux Klan and even random white mobs. The Black Panthers chose revolutionary tactics and embraced militancy, they were tired of being polite, tired of trying to blend, and living side by side with a people that just would not accept

The 1920s was a time of innovation and revolution for America but also struck fear in the lives of millions. During this period there were hundreds of new inventions including the radio, Model T, and the television, but alongside these great creations terror was struck in the heart of Americans by a group of radical white supremacist. These white supremacist were known as the Ku Klux Klan and they were on the hunt for anyone who opposed their opinions. The Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK, was an organization formed in 1866 that disbanded and reformed in the year 1915. The Klan and its Klansmen were known for their racist actions against blacks and other minorities.

The movie Forrest Gump is very historically accurate. It had three main events that actually happened. Those events were, the Vietnam War, the Integration act at the university in Alabama and the hurricane that struck the Gulf of mexico(Hurricane Carmen). With the Vietnam war being the biggest of the events, but it wasn’t entirely correct. The other event were smaller and sort of the side events that was happening throughout the movie.