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PERT TE Chere oye ean PW in mean oe: SAA at cca BEI RNC RRR ae ELEN tae NAT OL MEE 7A Hoa: i APENDIX BLACK FANTHER FARTY, Also Known As According to its official newspaper, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during December, 1966, in Oakland, California +o ori4nize black people so they can take control of the life. polities and the destiny of the black community. It was organized by Bobby Seale, BPP Chairman, and Huey P. Newton, BPP Minister of Defense. Newton was sentenced ip 1968 to serve 2 to 15 years after being convicted of man- slaughter in connection with the killing of an Oakland police officer. . The of fic il newspaper, “The Black Panther," which further describes i's3elf as the "Black Community News Service," states that the BFP advocates the se of guns and guerrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to end oppression of the black people. Residents of the black community are urged to arm themselves against the police who are consistently referred to in the publication a3 "pias" who should be killed. "The Blac! Pantto:” issue of September 7, 1968, contains an editorinl by BPP Minister of Education, George Mason Murray, which ends with the following: "Black men. Black people. colored persons of America, revolt everywhere: Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping is a revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere. Dynamite: Black Power. vse the gun. Kill the pigs everywhere.” Included i the introduction to an article appearing in the October 5, 1°%8, edition of "The Black Panther" is the statement “...we wil) not dissent from American Government. 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 China ard feature Mao’s statement that “political power grows ot of the barrel of a gun," The national headquarters of the BPP is located at 3106 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley. California, Branches have been established at various locations throughout the United States. yt wwe