Introduction
Attention getter
i. Huey Newton once said, “Black power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny”
Necessary Info
i. The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California in October of 1966 ii. The founders are Bobby Seale and Huey Newton iii. The group was influenced by Malcolm X and the writings of Franz Fanon, Che Guevara, Mao Zedong, and Karl Marx.
Thesis Statement
i. Although the Black Panther Party is seen as plain savage by some it should be remembered for its positive influence on African American lives in America.
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Topic Sentence
i. First, the Black Panthers improved the lives of low income African American.
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i. The Black panthers began many program
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Their belief was that together they could manage to change the social norm of white supremacy. ii. The African-American community had never truly had such a large revolution that taught self-empowerment and unity. iii. The idea that African Americans were equal was not new but it was radical.
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I. The Black Panther Party advocated the equality of opportunity
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I.their mindset on how to achieve this was to strengthen the black community (Houston 200).
Analysis
i. The black community had been dismissed by society for almost all of American history; therefore, they were exhausted of the discrimination towards them. ii. The self-empowerment that was advocated by the group led to an increase of support for black owned business which helped further the business. iii. Unity was the best option to gain equality because together they stood strong and challenge authority for its rigid system.
Conclusion
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i.The Black Panthers helped further improve the lives of poverty-stricken African Americans with a variation of community services and funding. ii.They also initiate administration of law enforcement. iii. However, the most important thing they did was unity the black
The Black Panther Party had a great deal of negative outlooks portrayed on them by not everyone, but more than half of the society. Without a doubt, the Black Panther Party addressed multiple situations with violent acts that implemented negativity towards them. The late Martin Luther King believed that he could obtain equality without having to use violence as a lament, instead the Black Panther’s believed that King’s non-violence movement had failed, and that violence was necessary to get through to the people who saw black communities and minority groups as insignificant. Although, the Black Panther Party only granted membership to African Americans, they weren’t anti-white, the Black Panther Party considered themselves
Organized in the 1960s at the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party emerged as a revolutionist group pioneering a strategy of militancy. The Party’s aims were to eliminate the discrimination challenging African-Americans in America since the time of slavery, and to protect their communities from police brutality. Inspired by contemporary radical leaders such as Malcolm X, the party recognized that in order to restructure American society so that civil equality was obtainable by all people, a much stronger opposition was necessary. Party members felt the passive resistance adopted by their predecessors fighting for equality proved
By now The Panthers had made a huge impact on the civil rights movement, here are some of the things they did. The Panthers helped many blacks with self-defense. They had taught kids to defend themselves against the whites. They also convinced kids that violence gets
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Imagine it is the 1960’s: conflict in Vietnam had sparked widespread protest at American college campuses, people all over the country were reading the The Feminine Mystique and fighting for increased equality among the sexes, and the Civil Rights Movement was at its peak. African Americans throughout America were uniting for the common cause of equality, however differing ideology and beliefs regarding how equality could be achieved divided them. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X rose as prominent leaders in the fight against racial inequality, the latter typically credited with the development of more violent methodology which excluded white involvement and conceived the movement of “Black Power.” The Black Panthers, members of a political party formed by college students Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, are typically associated with the idea of black power and the legacy of Malcolm X despite the fact that he had died a year prior to the party’s founding. While the idea of black power is easily and mis-conceivably associated with the idea of black supremacy and violence, The Black Panther Party primarily sought a spot for African Americans next to that of whites, not above. The Black Panther Party, despite its violent appearance and legacy, made a positive influence on American history through its platform based on equality, human rights, and patriotism.
Reconstruction failed for African Americans. By the 1890’s all optimism that came as a result of the Constitutional rights guaranteed to them by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments was gone. Their reality, particularly for those in the South, was one of lynchings, Jim Crowe laws, and voting restrictions. They faced discrimination, segregation, limited educational opportunities, and a tenant farming system that only slightly differed from slavery. In the early twentieth century, visionaries such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Marcus Garvey recognized the urgent need for change. These great leaders were in agreement that action was required to uplift the African American race. However, their philosophies on how to approach it were vastly different.
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i. By providing workforce oppurtines the African Americans where able to be payed and work jobs of their choice. The oppurtines allowed a process of decison making and provided education and resoucres. The nation was able to see change in the enviroment in the workforce mostly because the jobs where mostly done by African Americans.
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One of those things was using self defense. Throughout the years of the party, they went on to do many great things for the black community. The Black Panthers defended African Americans from police brutality, they started many programs for struggling
Black people have been known to be able to do incredible things from themselves and others. They are able to turn nothing into something and use it for the greater good of their own communities. Since the Great Renaissance and the inception of the Black Wall Street, African-Americans were a force to American society. Through the Black Wall Street, with their own money, Blacks were able to open up jobs and business that would recreate and maintain the socioeconomic flow within their own communities. Businesses, shops, banks, and health care facilities came out of the Black Wall Street. Since its destruction in 1921, African-Americans and their sense of having something that they can call their own has not been revitalized. Till this day, Blacks rely on their white counterparts to fulfill their needs in day-to-day living. There are a few ways that African-Americans can give to themselves, which will continue to give throughout the year. In return, this will make them (as a people) stronger, more unified, and powerful than ever before.
What comes to mind when you think of the Black Panther Party? Do you even know who the Black Panthers really were? They helped transform the lives of many African Americans in the U.S and helped empower the community. The Black Panther has a huge background of history, goals, and beliefs. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale from Oakland, California founded the Panthers in 1966. Initially, they were an African American self defense force and were highly influenced by Malcolm X’s beliefs. The Panthers had many goals such as;freedom, protecting blacks from police brutality, and helping African Americans obtain a jobs. Despite the negative stereotypes of the Black Panthers as people who ran around with guns, fighting police, they were a major group during the Civil Rights Movement because they practiced self defense, established revolutionary socialism, and stimulated Malcolm X's influence. In the following I will discuss the successful changes the Black Panther Party, had on the African American community during the civil rights movement.
The history of the struggle for the advancement and progression of African Americans is a larger-than-life story. It reveals their endeavors for the initiation of change in political, financial, educational, and societal conditions. They did everything to shape their future and that of their country i.e. the United States of America. This struggle for the attainment of equal rights has helped them to determine the path and the pace of their improvement and development (Taylor & Mungazi, 2001, p. 1).