How Did African Americans Fight For Equal Rights

Throughout American history, African Americans have struggled with having equal rights. Still to this day African Americans are not getting treated the same as whites do. In 1966 the Black Panther Party was founded to try to keep African Americans safe. Instead, they created enemies with the United States government causing them to become perceived as a threat. By following police officers around with guns, cameras, and law books they made themselves a danger to the American people. Their style of protesting was not effective because instead of keeping their people safe, they caused them more danger. Throughout the 1960s, it was a big struggle for African Americans to gain equal rights. They organized many different movements, including the freedom riders, marchers, protesters, and had boycotts. They all fought for equal rights for everybody. Two college students had an idea
They did charity work to help the African Americans that were struggling with money: “... the Black Panther Party launched more than 35 Survival Programs and provided community help, such as education tuberculosis testing, legal aid, transportation assistance, ambulance service, and the manufacture and distribution of free shoes to poor people” (Duncan). This helped the African American community during the time that the Black Panther Party was up and running, but after they fell apart the African American people were left with nothing. The actions that the Black Panther Party did then does not help African American people now. Many of the members of the Black Panther Party ended up being jailed, in prison, or killed. They had many shoot outs with police which lead to many deaths. In 1972 a major split happened within the group. Newton and Seale, the original founders, decided that they wanted to get rid of the violent methods. This did not go well with the rest of the group. Newton and Seale ended up resigning and then left the