black power
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- Created on: 08-05-15 20:50
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- Black Power
- Ideas
- Purely black society where white people would not trespass.
- Racial integration regected
- 1966: Black Panthers (BPP)
- Formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
- What they did
- 1968:Hampton- Free Food programe for poor
- 1968: Hampton-Free Medical Research Health Clinics- basic health care for poor
- Intercommunal Youth Band to give community pride to movement
- Hampton: Political education classes
- Hampton persuaded Chicago's most powerful street gangs to stop fighting each other
- Led to 1969 non-aggression pact
- Led to Rainbow coalition (multicultural alliance)
- Actions
- Seal sent to prison in 1968 for inciting riots, and was then charged with murdering a former black panther
- 1969: police raid their headquarters in Chicago
- Police claim Panthers open fire (Hampton and another panther accidentally killed)
- Panthers arrested and charged
- 1 shot: Panthers 100+ shots: police
- Police claim Panthers open fire (Hampton and another panther accidentally killed)
- Support?
- 1966 survey
- Nation on Islam (NOI)
- Aims
- Get Black Americans to follow Islam and reject Christianity ( white religion)
- Form a better society of their own
- Run by Elijah Muhammed
- SEE MALCOLM X SHEET
- Aims
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