The Black Panther PartyMy investigation paper for Assignment 4 is about the Black Panther Party. I will discuss the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party and how Huey Newton and Bobby Seale met. I will also discuss some of the goals of the Black Panther Party, the good the party has done for black and poor communities. I will also discuss what they hoped to achieve through their movement. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Oakland, California in 1966. The original name of the Black Panther Party was the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. . Huey Newton was illiterate when he graduated from high school. Newton taught himself to read. Seale had served in the Air Force. Newton and Seale met while they were both attending Merritt Junior College in 1965. After Newton attended Merritt Junior College, he studied law at San Francisco Law School. At Merritt Junior College, they organized a Soul Student Advisory Council. This Council was the first group to demand that African American studies be included in university curricula. The two men split from the board when Newton and Seale wanted to bring a team of black youth to campus to perform drills in commemoration of Malcolm X's birthday the year after his death. It was then that they formed the Black Panther Party. Newton was the party's defense minister and Seale was its president. The Black Panther Party's symbol, the panther, was adopted by an independent political party established by residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, a year earlier. The symbol was chosen because the panther is a powerful image. To achieve their goals, Newton and Seale had a ten-point program that demanded, among other things, full employment, exemption of black men from the military, and an end to police brutality. The last point, the tenth point, was a summary of all the other points. One of the main goals was to protect black citizens from police brutality. Their message was self-defense. Originally, the Party preached violent revolution as the only means to achieve black liberation. The party called on black people to arm themselves for the liberation struggle. Huey Newton studied law and spoke out when police violated the civil rights of black people. He made sure the search warrants were legal. The Black Panther Party had its own patrols to monitor police activity in Black Nei...... middle of paper ...... one leader was shot dead while standing in the doorway of his house. The murder was never solved. The Black Panther Party's Ten-Point System1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our black community.2. We want full employment for our people.3. We want to end capitalist plundering of our black communities.4. We want decent housing, suitable shelter for human beings.5. We want an education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want an education that teaches us our true history, our true history and our role in today's society. We want all black men exempt from military service.7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and the killing of black people.8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and municipal prisons.9. We want all black people, when brought to justice, to be tried in a court of law by a jury of their peers or people from their black communities, as defined by..