Huey Newton

Black Panther founder Huey Newton did not believe that large-scale riots in African American neighborhoods would help blacks achieve the revolutionary goals that he envisioned. Instead, Newton urged his followers to commit sabotage and mayhem against "oppressors" in small groups that could easily escape the police, whom he compared to the World War II Nazi security officers known as the Gestapo. Newton wrote the following article for the July 20, 1967, edition of the Black Panther Newspaper.

Huey Newton was an activist at Merritt Junior College in Oakland where he met Bobby Seale. Together they founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, with Seale acting as chairman and Newton as Minister of Defense. In 1989 Newton was shot and killed by a drug dealer.

The Black masses are handling the resistance [to white authority] incorrectly. When the brothers in East Oakland, having learned...