He's probably making a law to serve the power structure. We don't care about laws anyway, because the laws they make don't serve us at all. He said, "Look here, Mulford is up in the legislature now, trying to get a bill passed against us. One Monday morning Huey Newton called me up and said, "Bobby, come over to the house right quick." I went over to the house. But now I realize that he did it because he loved us and we did love him in return even though he was what you might a call a benevolent tyrant - there was only one way of doing anything in this wide world and that was always my daddy's way. We were poor, of course I didn't know what that meant at the time, all I knew was that my father was away from home quite often and I resented him for that at that time. He had to - there were seven children in the family - I'm the youngest one of seven. Hardworking man - he worked three or four jobs simultaneously to support us. Small man, wasn't very tall, but whenever he stood up in that pulpit on Sunday morning, he was the tallest man in the world to me. My father was in fact a man of the church. They were both very much involved in the NAACP through their church. My parents taught me to be unafraid of life and therefore unafraid of death. ▲ Main Article ▲ Primary Sources (1) Huey P. My soul will live forever!" He was then shot three times in the face by Robinson. It is claimed that Newton's last words were, "You can kill my body, but you can't kill my soul. On 22nd August, 1989, Robinson pulled a gun on Newton. Huey Newton came into conflict with Tyrone Robinson, a drug-dealer in Oakland. His dissertation was entitled: War Against the Panthers: A Study in Repression in America. Newton returned to his studies at the University of California Santa Cruz and in 1980 he received a Ph.D. Released on bail, Newton fled to Cuba but in 1977 he returned to the United States and was freed after two hung juries. The following year he was arrested and charged with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Newton published his book, Revolutionary Suicide in 1973.
The Panthers also became involved in conventional politics and in 1973 Bobby Seale ran for mayor of Oakland and came second out of nine candidates with 43,710 votes (40 per cent of votes cast).
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Newton now concentrated on socialist community programs including free breakfasts for children, free medical clinics and helping the homeless.
Another member, George Jackson, was killed while in San Quentin prison in August, 1971. Over a six year period 24 Black Panthers had been killed in gun fights with the police. The following year he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter.Īfter being released from prison Newton renounced political violence. Newton was wounded and while in hospital was charged with killing a police officer. This included an exchange of fire between Panthers and the police at Oakland on 28th October, 1967. Harassed by the police, members became involved in several shoot-outs. The Black Panthers had chapters in several major cities and had a membership of over 2,000. Hoover described the Panthers as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country" and in November 1968 ordered the FBI to employ "hard-hitting counter-intelligence measures to cripple the Black Panthers". The activities of the Black Panthers came to the attention of J. Rap Brown, Fred Hampton, Bobby Hutton and Eldridge Cleaver. Other important members included Stokely Carmichael, H. The Black Panthers also ran medical clinics and provided free food to school children. Initially established to protect local communities from police brutality and racism, it eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group. Long, was an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).Īt Merritt College in Oakland, California, Newton met Bobby Seale and in 1966 they formed the Black Panther Party. His father, who named his son after the radical politcian, Huey P. Huey Newton, the youngest of seven children, was born in Monroe, Louisiana, on 17th February, 1942.
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