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Black Panthers
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale created the Black Panther political party on October 15th of 1966.
Newton was born on February 17th, 1942, in Monroe, Louisiana. In his school years Huey got into a lot of trouble so he turned to burglary. When Newton was 22 he was arrested for assult with a deadly weapon. Huey Newton was a founding member of the Black Panther movement.The FBI was labeled Newton and his colleagues as ‘Public Enemy Number One’. On August 22nd, 1989, Huey Newton, 47, was shot and killed, by a drug dealer in a drug deal that went wrong.
''Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.''
The Symbol Black Panther was used because it was a powerful image. A powerful image is all they needed.
Robert George, or (Bobby) Seale was born on October 22 1936 in Dallas, Texas. He was an American civil rights activist, and co-founded the Black Panthers with Huey Newton in October 1966. Bobby Seale was one of the three children and his father was a carpenter, in the south. When he was 25, in 1962, Seale started going to Oakland City College, where he joined the Afro-American Association and met Huey for the first time. Seale and Newton were both very inspired by Malcolm X, a civil rights leader of the time, and Bobby, and Seale looked at a lot of the beliefs that Malcolm had, when they were putting together the Black Panthers.
