This group of people was known as "The Black Panther Party." This Party was a very progressive political organization which was the most powerful movement since the Revolution of 1776 and the Civil War and it also was responsible for the social change in America. It was the sole black organization in the history of black struggle against slavery and oppression in the United States. The Party was armed and it promoted a revolutionary agenda. The Black Panther Party represents the last great thrust by a number of blacks for equality, justice, and freedom. It was the most influential organization that opened the eyes for many Americans and paved the way for all the different nationalities and ethnic groups in America. The Black panther Party fed the hungry, protected the weak from many racist officials and gave many people hope. (http://www.blackpanther.org/History.html Page 1)

In October 1966 in the wake of the assassination of Black leader Malcolm X and the Civil

Immediately the leadership of the Party outlined a Ten Point Platform and Program. This Platform and Program put together the wants and beliefs of the Black Panthers, it demanded that the needs be met and oppression of the blacks be ended immediately, it also demanded the rights for self-defense and a long-awaited change in America. Two of the ten wants and beliefs were...

In 1967, the FBI put together and organized a counterintelligence program known as the COINTELPRO which was put together and organized by J. Edgar Hoover. This COINTELPRO used ideas to get secure information for purposes of destroying the Black Panthers. They would use wire taps and use spies to enter many of the Black Panther meetings and assemblies. With this program the FBI directed its field offices and local police departments to destroy the Party through the use of informants, agents, and activities including murder and mayhem. Undoubtedly the Party survived their attempts and continued to build and organize its Survival Programs which not only included the Breakfast Programs and the Free Clinic but also grocery giveaways, the manufacturing and distribution of free shoes, school and educational programs, senior transport and service programs, free busing to prisons and prisoner support and legal aid programs. The FBI used infiltrators to provoke illegal activities among the Party's leaders in hope that it would lead to possible arrest, this was done mainly to break up the group. COINTELPRO slowly took its toll on the panthers. The Black Panthers were never fully eliminated, though they lost the majority of their members within five years. By the end of the decade 28 panthers had been killed and many other members were either in jail or they had been forced to leave the United States to avoid arrest.

The US Government would do anything to get rid of the Black Panther Party and J. Edgar Hoover the director of the FBI at the time was determined to do so. Hoover directed the FBI to put up a campaign to eliminate the Black Panther Party altogether, he also ordered the help of the local police department. Hoover, in 1968 stated that the Party was "the greatest threat to the internal security of the US," and he also pledged that the year of 1969 would be the last year of the Party's existence. In January 1969 two Party leaders of the Southern California Chapter, John Huggins and Alprentice Carter were murdered at UCLA by FBI paid assassins with the cooperation of Black nationalist Ron Karenga and his US organization. By the end of the year nearly every office had been assaulted violently by the police and the FBI. The government put together many assaults against the Party and murdered many men. A policeman in Oakland murdered 17 year old Bobby Hutton in April and in August the Los Angeles Police Department murdered another 17 year old Panther Tommy Lewis along with Robert Lawrence and Steve Bartholomew. Chairman of the Black Panther's, Bobby Seale, was arrested on conspiracy charges in connection with antiwar protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. They also arrested The Black Panther's Chief of Staff David Hilliard on charges of assaulting police officers on a conspiracy to kill President Nixon arising from an antiwar speech. There had been every kind of assault and destruction on the Party's property and their Social Programs. Police raiders smashed Breakfast Program eggs on floors of churches, they also crushed the Party's free clinic supplies under their feet. In addition they caused destruction on many batches of The Black Panther Party Newspaper. They tried their hardest and with all of their might to intimidate, and break the spirit and the commitment of the Party supporters and family members.

WE BELIEVE that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not recieved a fair an impartial trial.

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