Black Panthers
Beginning of paper
In 1966, the national Black Panther party was created. Their platform and it’s ideals
struck a chord with blacks across the country, especially in the inner cities of the north. The
Panthers were able to organize and unite these blacks. This alarmed the federal government.
They instituted ma ....
Middle of paper
.... up breakfast, and helped people to clean up their neighborhoods. The
Black Panthers gave many urban black communities a sense of unity and identity that they hadn’t
had before.
The Panther’s rhetoric of violence alarmed the government. In March of 1968, the
Panther newspaper printed this warning to police, “Halt in the name of humanity! You shall make
no more war on unarmed people. You will not kill another black person and walk on the streets
of the black community to gloat about it ....
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