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The Black Panthers: A Success or Failure?
Standing apart from the crowd, the Black Panthers changed the idea of what it meant to be equal. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party, originally known as The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, on October 1966 in Oakland, California. As a part of a revolution, the Black Panthers separated themselves from most Civil Rights activists. Equality was the goal for all black activists during this time, but unlike Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Black Panthers used force. Programs given to the black community by the Panthers paved the road for equality by helping them prosper physically and emotionally. Before the Panthers came about, black people were afraid to go out; however, the Party gave the people an identity, and they were now no longer ashamed or afraid of being black but were proud of who they were. Like all leaders of a revolution, the Black Panthers were criticized by other races and even by some of their own people. During the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the Black Panthers brought about change to their communities through force and service programs; though criticized as extremists, the Panthers fought with dedication for justice and equality for all blacks.
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers to decrease or end the actions of police brutality against their people, and eventually the Panthers turned into a major part of the Civil Rights Movement. The Party’s original purpose was to patrol poor black neighborhoods where acts of police brutality occurred frequently. At this time the black people were the victims
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of whites, who believed that black people played a huge role in the dreadful problems facing America.
Approximate Word count = 1323
Approximate Pages = 5.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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