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Black Panther Party — Part 33
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BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP),
also known as
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
According to the official newspaper of the BPP. the
RPP was started during December 1966 in Oakland, California, to organize
black people so they can take control of the life. politics, and the
destiny of the black community. Tt was organized by BOBBY G. SEALE, BPP
,Chairman, and HUEY P., NEWTON, Minister of Defense, BPP.
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The official newspoper, called "The Black Panther," regularly states
that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrilla tactics in its
revolutionary program to cnd oppression of the black people. Residents
of the black community are urged to arm themselves against the police who
are consistently referred to as "pigs" who should be killed. |
The newspaper, in its issue of September 7, 1968, had an article by
the then Minister of Education, GEORGE MURRAY. This article ended with
. the following:
"Black men. Black people, colored persons of America, revolt
everywhere! Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping
is revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere. , ,
Dynamite! Black power. Use the gun. Kill the pigs everywhere."
The BPP newspaper, issue of October 5, 1968, had an article introduced
with the following statement: "We will not dissent from American govern-
fei # ment. We will overthrow it."
= was quoted as follows: "We advocate the very direct overthrow of the
DAVID HILLIARD, Chief of Staff, BPP, in a speech at the San Francisco
> Polo Field on November 15, 1969, said "We will kill Richard Nixon."
DAVID HILLIARD, in the "New York Times," issue of December 13, 1969,
f government by way of force and violence."
, In the issue of April 25, 1970, the BPP newspaper had an article by
. Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS as follows:
"The only way to make this racist US government administer
justice to the people it is oppressing, is...by taking up
arms against this government, killing the officials, until
the reactionary forces...are dead, and those that are left
turn their weapons on their superiors, thereby passing
revolutionary judgement against the number one enemy of all
mankind, the racist U.S. government."
7 The BPP Headquarters is located at 1046 Peralta Street, Oakland,
a California. Branches of the BPP, and Committees to Combat Fascism, under
control of the BPP. have been established in various locations in the USA.
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