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Kareem J. Lanier
December, Fall 2003
Social Sciences 300; Wednesday Nights
Dr. Dean Manders

The Black Panthers were a famous and revolutionary organization founded in California in the 1960's, whose purpose was the protection and empowerment of the black race. Although most media attention focused around Martin Luther King Jr. as the leader of the Civil Rights movement during the 1960's, Black Power groups like the Black Panthers, who disagreed with MLK's ideology, also exerted influence, especially in poor black communities. "Founded in October 1967 in Oakland, California, by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the group had as its original purpose patrolling black neighborhoods to monitor police treatment of blacks" . The party originally had fewer than one hundred members in Oakland, but it grew to a loosely connected organization with chapters in about thirty-five cities in nineteen states by 1970. The Panthers were also famous for their tough image: they were "dressed in striking u...