
While the Black Panther Party is well known for their tactics of armed self-defense in black berets and leather jackets, their political goals went beyond policing the police. The party’s political platform advocated for housing, economic and social justice for Black people. By 1982, the last of its chapters dissolved. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, the anti-imperial, anti-fascist organization sought to empower their community through aggressive tactics aimed at combatting police brutality and adopting socialist policies.Īt the party’s height between 19, they operated chapters in cities across America, the United Kingdom, and Algeria. Founded by Oakland college students and devoted activists Huey P. One of the groups to gain a foothold was the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, later known simply as the Black Panther Party. (Image credit: Ted Streshinsky Photographic Archive) For his blistering portrayal of Hampton, Daniel Kaluuya earned an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 2021 Oscars.
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The movie is blistering in its portrayal of the conspiracy between the federal government and the local police department to silence Hampton. Filmmaker Shaka King tells the true story of Hampton and Bill O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), the car thief turned FBI informant forced to undermine the organization from the inside and participate in Hampton’s assassination. The film Judas and the Black Messiah follows the rise of Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), the head of the Illinois chapter of the party. While these associations generally pursued their goals through civil disobedience and the courts, it was the Black Panther Party that eschewed the establishment in favor of leftist community organizing, a focus on Black power, and military tactics. In the 1960s alone, there were a number of organizations working to secure civil rights and economic justice for African-Americans–including MLK’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC) the NAACP the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC) and the Congress for Racial Equality ( CORE).

The struggle for Black liberation doesn’t begin and end with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
