The Black Panther Party (BBP)
Bobby and all other armed members at the protest were arrested, all got out after six months, and in that time, the movement grew to have different cells across the nation.
Though the protest did make an impact on the national news scene, it did not have any influence on the legislature, as it was passed. This, however only gathered more publicity for the panther’s growing movement.
Shortly after the bill was passed, as the BPP grew, so did its tools. One of the most significant tools of the Black Panther Party was the BBP paper. With each article informing more of the general public on the atrocities committed by the United States government. This publication became popular and helped to spread the word across the country. The paper would …show more content…
Stokely would have the free Huey movement a priority, but also put more work on the more civil side of the many issues facing the Panthers. Stokely also took a stiff position on letting whites into the civil rights movement, even going so far to say; “Whites who come into the black community with ideas of change seem to want to absolve the power structure of its responsibility for what it is doing, and say that change can only come through black unity, which is the worst kind of paternalism..... If we are to proceed toward true liberation, we must cut ourselves off from white people..... [otherwise] we will find ourselves entwined in the tentacles of the white power complex that controls this country.”. These statements would stir controversy in the party, but the party still stood strong with the motivation of freeing Huey and taking down the “Capitalist Pig …show more content…
The first major communist move by the party was to make Mao’s Red Book required reading, a book instructing the communist Chinese how to live, then handing that book out to students at a university to purchase shotguns. One of the great acts of charity that the BBP would bring, is the Free Breakfast Program, which would bring food for all to come and would serve up to 10,000 people across the nation daily.
In late 1968, Eldridge Cleaver,a strong leader in the BPP, who had started the outrage over the Huey Newton case was accused of sexual assault and was convicted. He would flee to Cuba where he was accepted, and sheltered from the prosecution of the
Though the protest did make an impact on the national news scene, it did not have any influence on the legislature, as it was passed. This, however only gathered more publicity for the panther’s growing movement.
Shortly after the bill was passed, as the BPP grew, so did its tools. One of the most significant tools of the Black Panther Party was the BBP paper. With each article informing more of the general public on the atrocities committed by the United States government. This publication became popular and helped to spread the word across the country. The paper would …show more content…
Stokely would have the free Huey movement a priority, but also put more work on the more civil side of the many issues facing the Panthers. Stokely also took a stiff position on letting whites into the civil rights movement, even going so far to say; “Whites who come into the black community with ideas of change seem to want to absolve the power structure of its responsibility for what it is doing, and say that change can only come through black unity, which is the worst kind of paternalism..... If we are to proceed toward true liberation, we must cut ourselves off from white people..... [otherwise] we will find ourselves entwined in the tentacles of the white power complex that controls this country.”. These statements would stir controversy in the party, but the party still stood strong with the motivation of freeing Huey and taking down the “Capitalist Pig …show more content…
The first major communist move by the party was to make Mao’s Red Book required reading, a book instructing the communist Chinese how to live, then handing that book out to students at a university to purchase shotguns. One of the great acts of charity that the BBP would bring, is the Free Breakfast Program, which would bring food for all to come and would serve up to 10,000 people across the nation daily.
In late 1968, Eldridge Cleaver,a strong leader in the BPP, who had started the outrage over the Huey Newton case was accused of sexual assault and was convicted. He would flee to Cuba where he was accepted, and sheltered from the prosecution of the