History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1991 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Black Panthers
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The idea
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton founded the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, in nineteen sixty-six, holding that African Americans were victims of capitalism as much as of White racism.
In practice
Chapters spreading, the Yawp says, to dozens of cities with thousands of members by nineteen seventy.
Where people slip
The Yawp names Fred Hampton's Illinois chapter among the most active.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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