The Black Panthers and The Nation of Islam

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The Black Panthers and The Nation of Islam

• Allie Priede
• Brigid Horlander
• Mitch Dunn
• Hunter Asip

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The Black Panthers

• Established in mid-1960s, rejected Martin Luther
  Kings call for nonviolent protests.
• Black panthers armed themselves and fought
  several bloody battles with law enforcement
  officials.
• They were headquartered in Oakland, CA. and
  created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
• They were originally named the Black Panther
  Party for Self-Defense.
• The ten point program demanded decent housing
  and education as well as control of their own
  communities and monitored police activities.

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Black Panthers cont.

• They organized free breakfast for poor children,
  along with schools for children to learn a pledge
  and other parts to being a Black Panther.
• By the early 1970s, nearly all of the leaders
  were in jail, dead, or on the run from the law
  thus, the organization dissipated slowly over the
  years.
• They emphasized a MACHISMO image and promoted
  programs that promised to address the needs of
  the urban black community.
• On April 25th, 1967, The Black Panther, the
  partys official newspaper, went into
  distribution.
• In October 1967, Newton was arrested for the
  killing of an Oakland cop.

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Black Panthers

• Stokely Carmichael coined the phrase black
  power , served as the prime ministers as the
  Black Panthers. He was previously the chairman of
  SNCC.
• He wrote the book Black Power in 1967 which he
  co-wrote with Charles Hamilton.
• He explained that supporters of black power
  increased black political and economic power and
  to enhance black pride in their African American
  heritage.
• He acknowledged that most Americans perceived
  black power as a call to raise arms.

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Black Panthers cont.

• Carmichael moved back to West Africa.
• Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968
  Olympics, made a grand stand against racism in
  America. Smith had won the world-record time in
  the 200-m sprint Carlos had captured the bronze.
  On the victory platform as the US anthem played,
  they bowed their heads, and, each wearing a black
  glove, raised a clenched fist in a black power
  salute.
• Australia's Peter Norman, who won silver, wore an
  Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in support
  of the pair.

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The Nation of Islam

• The black nationalist and religious group founded
  by W.D. Fard in the 1930s.
• Led by Elijah Muhammad (Elijah Poole).
• Malcolm X,also another famous leader, later
  resigned from the Nation of Islam but, remained a
  Muslim.
• An additional famous leader was Louis Farrakhan
  (born Louis Eugene Walcott)
• After the death of Elijah Muhammad, the Nation
  split into two sections. Farrakhan took control
  of one section and Muhammads son, Imam Warith
  Deen Muhammad, took control of the other.

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Nation of Islam

• Malcolm X and his black Muslims challenged Kings
  integrationist message, calling for a separate
  nation and economic system.
• The Nation of Islam was founded on the basis of
  peace and as an answer to a prayer of Abraham to
  deliver his people who would be found in
  servitude slavery in the Western Hemisphere in
  this day and time.
• The members are taught never to carry arms, to
  make war or to be the aggressor, for this is
  against the nature of the righteous.
• The women are taught a dress code of modesty that
  will lead to the practice of high morality.
• The leader now is Minister Louis Farrakhan

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Pictures are Truth and Reality

• Fred Hampton- head of Illinois chapter.
• Bobby Seale and the explanation of
• the ten point program.
• YouTube - Bobby Seale The Black Panther Party's
  Ten Point Program
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• Black Panther School

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Reality cont.

• Barack Obama and The New Black Panther Party
• Barack Obamas campaign has removed an
  endorsement by the New Black Panther Party from
  its Web site, one day after the Illinois senator
  delivered a speech calling for improved race
  relations in America.
• New Black Panther Party Supports Obama

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Bibliography

• Tackach, James. Early Black Reformers. Greenhaven
  Press, 2003. 26.
• Levy, Peter B. The Civil Rights Movement.
  Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, 1998.
  142, 199-200.
• Bitter price of Olympics' iconic image October
  17, 2003.
• Muhammad, Tynetta. "Brief History on the Nation
  of Islam." (March 28, 1996) http//noi.org/histor
  y_of_noi.htm.