Crack Cocaine and Corruption: The C.I.A’s involvement with the fall of the Black Panther Party and the African American Community LA Shelle E. Daisy History 97E Professor Hernandez November 13‚ 2012 The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland‚ California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale on October 15‚ 1966‚ and was dissolved in 1982 due to a crack cocaine epidemic of the African American community. The Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) involvement with the smuggling of crack cocaine
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the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was formed. The Black Panther Party took a different approach to fighting for their rights‚ which caused many to question their legitimacy. Carrying firearms and not being devoted to non-violence were a couple aspects that separated them from all other groups at the time. The Black Panther Party played a critical role for the development of African American rights during the civil rights movement. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party
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organization was formed‚ founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale the Black Panther Party for Self Defense began to take shape. Although the Black Panther Party was formed in 1966 the Civil Rights Movement had been taking place since a decade before‚ the Black Panther Party still had a great impact on the past and present day even though the Panthers weren’t as big as the King movement. Every day the participants of the Panthers would face trouble and the dangers of the police‚ government‚ Ku Klux
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The Black Panthers were a famous and revolutionary organization founded in California in the 1960’s‚ whose purpose was the protection and empowerment of the black race. Although most media attention focused around Martin Luther King Jr. as the leader of the Civil Rights movement during the 1960’s‚ Black Power groups like the Black Panthers‚ who disagreed with MLK’s ideology‚ also exerted influence‚ especially in poor black communities. "Founded in October 1967 in Oakland‚ California‚ by Huey Newton
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Isn’t it amazing how beautiful and majestic‚ an animal such as the black panther could be‚ and I bet you didn’t even know that they are on the verge of extinction. Black panthers are made up of four different types of large cats in the animal kingdom that can alter the color of their coat. Black panthers are also exceptional hunters who never let go on their prey. Unfortunately‚ however‚ humans are driving these extraordinary animals on the brink of extinction and we are the only ones who can help
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Ashley Lewis Ms. Bostick US History (Period 4) May 31‚ 2013 Black Panthers One of the biggest contributors to help develop civil rights in the United States was the Black Panther Party. This civil rights movement created by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland‚ California of 1966 was considered to be the “greatest threat to the internal security of the country” (US History 13.3). This party was created to specifically focus on self-defense especially from police brutality. Section 1:
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successful‚ that success led the Panthers to start free health clinics. The free health clinics was started due to the lack of health care attention that served many blacks in the inner-city communities. The health clinics depended on volunteer services from local doctors‚ residents‚ medical students‚ nurses‚ interns‚ along with people in the community‚ as well as low-rent and or donated spaces. Not only were the Panthers helping black but they were helping non-blacks as well (Bloom 188). The focus
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in the United States air force and later joined the Merritt College in Oakland‚ California. His radicalization was fueled by a speech given by Malcom X in 1962 (Seale‚ 1978). He founded the Black Panthers party in 1966 with Huey Newtown which focused on a more hands on involvement in the empowerment of the blacks in the country. Despite advocating for a more militant
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Brittany Instructor S. Leigh November 10 Black Panther and Ku Klux Klan After doing research to compare/contrast the two groups‚ the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan‚ it opened my eyes. I realized that the new generation is oblivious to the existence of both groups and the similarities and differences in them. I researched the two different groups to see when the groups came into existence who were the members‚ why they fought for rights they thought they deserved and the group’s involvement
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Newton’s Imprisonment and the Fall of the Black Panthers How did Huey P. Newton’s imprisonment in 1968 affect the decline in effectiveness and eventual end of the Black Panther Party? During Huey P. Newton’s imprisonment in 1968‚ many people rushed to join the black panther party‚ this influx of fresh members along with the absence of the main founder of the party created a lack of discipline within the party and eventually lead to fragmentation within the party; once Newton was released‚ his new
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