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Black Panther Party — Part 34
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_ “BIACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP),
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According to the official newepaper of the BPP, the . cope =
BPP was started during Decembér, 1966, in Oakland, California, to organize
black people so they can take control of the life, politiag, and the
deatiny of the biack community. It was organized by BOBBY G. SEALE, BPP
Chairman, and HUEY P. NEWTON, Minister of Defense, BPP. :
The official newspaper, called "The Black Panther," regulerly #
that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrille tectics in its
revolutionary program to end oppression of the black people. Residents
of the bleck community are urged to arm themselves against the polica -who
are consistently referred to as "pigs" who ghould be killed. 4
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: . a OS
"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."
Tne BPP newepaper, issue of October 5, 1958, had an article introduced
with the following statement: "We will not dissent from American govern-
ment. We will overthrow it.” .
DAVID HILLIARD, Chief of Staff, BPP, in a spe@ch at the San Francisco
Polo Field on November 15, 1969, said "We will kill Richard Nixon.":
DAVID HILLIARD, in the "New York Timés," issue of December 13, 1969,
wes quoted as follows: "We advocate the very direct overthrow of the
§ government by way of force and violence."
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In the issue of April 25, 1970, the BPP newspsper had an article by
Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS ag follows:
"The only way to make this racist US government administer
juatice to the people it 1s oppressing, is. . . by taking up
arms against this government, killing the officials, until
thé 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 411
mankind, the racist U. S. government."
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California. Branchee 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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