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Fee Ce cons ae ae oe ae ery oe ae SO Ed ad Ald : | BLACK PANTHER PARTY, Also Known As Black Panther Party for Self-Defense According to its official newspaper, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during December, 1966, in Oakland, California, to oryanize black people so they can take control of the life. pvlitics and the destiny of the black community. It was organized by Bobby Seale, BPP Chairman, and Huey P. Newton, BPP Ministe1: of Defense. Newton was sentenced in 1968 to serve 2 to 15 yours after being convicted of man- slaughter in connection with the killing of an Oakland police officer. The Official mewspaper, "I'he Black Panther," which further describes itself as the “Black Community News Service," states that the BPP advocates the use 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 as “pigs" who should be killed. “The Blac) Panther" as. of September 7, 1968, contains an editoriz! by Ber Minister of Education, George Mason Murray, which ends with the following: "Black men. Black poople. colored persons of America, revolt everywhere: Arm yoursclves, The only culture worth keeping is 4 revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere. Dynamite! Black Po. or. Us. the gun. Kill the pigs everywhere." Included in the introduction to an article appearing in the October 5, 1°%8, edition of “The Black Panther" is the statement "...we wiJ]} 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 and feature Mao's statement that “political. power grows out 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 varicus Jocations throughout the United States.