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Ee ET So nr TOP gst pQuTDe TIN. APPENDIX bee BLACK PANTHER PARTY, Also Known As Black Panther Party for Self- According to its official newspaper, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during December. 1966, 1p Oakland, California, to organize black people so they can take control of the life, polities and the destiny of the black community. it was organ.zed by Bobby Seate. BPP Chairman. and fiuey P, Newton, BPP Minis‘er of Defe Newton was sentenced 1n 1968 to serve 2 to 15 years after being convicted of manslaughter, in connection with the killing oJ an Oakland police officer The efficial newspaper. "Phe Black Pantner "| which further describes aitsel€ as the "Black Community sews Service,” states that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrilla tactics im its revolutioosry program to end oppression of the black people Residents of the biack community arc urged to arm themselves aparnst the police who are consistently referred to in the publication as “pigs who shoulda be kilted "The Black Panther’ issue of September 7. 1968, con- tains an ¢ditoria) by BPP Minister of Education. George Mason Murray. which ends with the following. "Black mon. Black people. ectored persons of America, revolt everywhere! Arn yoursely The only culture worth keeping is a revolutionary culture Change Freedom everyenere Dynamite! Black Power, Use the gun Kill the pigs everywhere ° Included in the introduction te an article appearing in the Octobcr 5, 1968, editioe of "The Black VFanther’ is the statement "...we will not dissent from American Government We will overthrow at." Issues of "The Black Panther" regularly contain quotations from the vritings of Chairman Mao Tsy-tuny of the People's Republic of China end feature Mao's statement tnat “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” The national headquarters of the BPP is located at 3106 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, California Bram hes bave been established ato various locations throvabeat the United states