BLACK POWER MOVEMENT

Black Power Movement- 

The Black Panthers- was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. Dressed in black berets and black leather jackets, the Black Panthers organized armed citizen patrols of Oakland and other U.S. cities. At its peak in 1968, the Black Panther Party had roughly 2,000 members. The organization later declined as a result of internal tensions, deadly shootouts and FBI counterintelligence activities aimed at weakening the organization. (History.com Editors)

People involved-

Malcolm X  (A)

• Malcolm X was an activist who founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity and moved increasingly in the direction of socialism. He urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression by any means necessary. He then was assassinated by a Black Muslim at a rally of his organization in New York on February 21, 1965.

  
                                                                                                                                                              

 Bobby Seale (A)

• Bobby Seale was born in Texas in 1936, he was one of the generation of young African-American radicals who broke away from the usually nonviolent Civil Rights Movement to preach a doctrine of militant black empowerment. He also helped found the Black Panther.

Ella Baker (A)

• Ella Baker worked for the NAACP for decades and was one of the most important women in the civil rights movement. She also worked with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee