Black Panthers
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- One of the most radical black organisations- called for a revolution in American Society
- Founded- 1966- Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale
- Black Panthers said they were the 'heirs of Malcolm X'
- Ten Point Platform
- full employment
- decent housing
- 'education that teaches us our true (black) history'
- worldwide working-class struggle
- reparations
- self-determination
- end to police brutality
- improvements in the ghetto
- Around 5,000 members in 30 loosely urban chapters in cities- Oakland, Boston, New Orleans, Chicago & Kansas City- Black Panthers had a considerable impact- their newsletter had a circulation of around 250,000 by 1969