Black+Panther+Party

During the Civil Rights Movement, there were a lot of organizations that attempted to reform the way society functioned. In 1966, the [|Black Panther Party] was created by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in California. Martin Luther King, Jr. was doing everything he could to further the civil rights movement through nonviolent actions. Although, the Black Panther Party argued that nothing was being changed and that greater steps needed to be taken. In almost the exact opposite to King's ideas, this Party promoted violent tactics to try to enforce their ideas into the public. The Black Panther Party's ideologies are clearly displayed through their "Ten-Point Program." These points were: "Black Panther Party: Platform and Program (1966)." // American History //. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Web. 27 Mar. 2012.
 * 1) //We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. //
 * 2) //We want full employment for our people. //
 * 3) //We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community. //
 * 4) //We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. //
 * 5) //We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. //
 * 6) //We want all black men to be exempt from military service. //
 * 7) //We want an immediate end to __ police brutality __ and __ murder __ of black people. //
 * 8) //We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. //
 * 9) //We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. //
 * 10) //We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. //

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