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2 - APPENDIX BLACK PANTHER PARTY, Also Known As Black Panther Party for Se:f-Defense According to its official DC¥SPAPEr , the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during De fs 2966, in Oakland, California, to organize black p 2 they can take control of the life, politics and the eectiee of the black community. It was orgaznized by Gobby Seale, PPP Chairman, and Huey P. Newton, BPF Minister of Nefeuse. Newten was sentenced in 1968 to serve 2 io 15 years after beine convicted of man- slaughter in conrectisn with the killing of “1 C2kiand police officer. wa, ve," which 3 Service," and squerrilaa perepaper, "Tre Bl further describes i + the "Boack states that the BFP advocates the use 2. tactics in its rvevsluticuiry program ic black people. & ants of the bi arm themselves %esin:s ihe poiice eho to in the publication as "pigs" who sho The offreiet tiy referred ed. “The Black Pantner" assue of Serirevher 7, 1368, contains an editorial by 2PP Miniszer of Fducation, George Mason Murtay, whica cnds with the fallowing: “Bleck men. RBinck people, colored porsens of America, revolt everywhere, Arm yourselves. The onig < ure worth keeping is a revolutionzry culture. Change. fresdom everywhere. Dynamite?! Black Power. Use the gun. Kill the rigs everywhere." Included in the introduction to az in the October 5, 1968, edition of “The B81 statement "...we will pat dissent froa Aneri We will overthrow it." Issues of "The Black Panther" regularly contain quotations from the writings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung of the People's Republic of Chin. and feature Mao’s statement that “political power grows cut of the barrel of a gun." The notional headquarters of the BPP is Iccated at 3106 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California. Branches have been established at various locations throughout the United States.