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Founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was the era’s most influential militant black power organization.

Its members confronted politicians, challenged the police, and protected black citizens from brutality. The party’s community service programs - called “survival programs” - provided food, clothing, and transportation. Rather than integrating American society, members wanted to change it fundamentally. For them, black power was a global revolution.

Organizing a Revolutionary Party

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, young political activists in Oakland, California, were disappointed in the failure of the civil rights movement to improve the condition of blacks outside the South. They saw brutality against civil rights protesters as part of a long tradition of police violence and state oppression. They immersed themselves in the history of blacks in America. In 1966 they organized young, poor, disenfranchised African Americans into the Black Panther Party.^[[1] https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/black-panther-party-challenging-police-and-promoting-social-change]


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In 1971, two police officers were shot dead in Harlem. Nineteen-year-old Jalil Muntaqim of the Black Liberation Army was convicted and sent to prison. Nearly half a century later, he's still locked up – and he believes he's a victim of his involvement in the black liberation struggle

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[–] jimmydoreisalefty 0 points 7 months ago

Timestamps:

  1. [00:37] - Jalil Muntaqim (AKA Anthony Bottom) and Herman Bell, members of the Black Liberation Army, each received a sentence of 25 years to life
  2. [03:39] - The officers were ambushed in Harlem after responding to a bogus domestic abuse complaint
  3. [04:04] - Aged 18, Jalil Muntaqim joined the Black Liberation Army, a militant wing of the Black Panther party
  4. [04:31] - Its goal was to take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States