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The Black Panther Movement of the Sixties
Summary: This essay is about the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party.
If one were an Oakland Police officer in the late 1960's and was making an arrest in a black neighborhood not less than five feet away there would be black men and women dressed in black with black leather jackets with fully loaded shotguns and revolvers watching everything you did, making sure it was legal. These people were members of the Black Panther Party centralized in Oakland, CA, and founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The Black Panther Party believed that the unjustified treatment they were receiving from the police, and other people of different ethnic groups who discriminated against black people, was due to their ethnic background. They would have to put a stop to it not by Dr. Martin Luther King's peace movement, but by resisting force with force. They decided that it was time to speak out against the people that were oppressing them...
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