Black Panther Party
Name at least one of three founders of the Black Panther Party.
Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Elbert Howard
The struggle for justice, equality, and the end of racial segregation for Black Americans in the 1960's.
The Civil Rights Movement
She was a journalist, civil rights leader, one of the founders of the NAACP, and leader of a campaign against lynching in the late 1890's.
Ida B. Wells
The FBI's program that surveilled, infiltrated, discredited, smeared, broke up, and disrupted American political organizations and Black Liberation groups, most notably infiltrating the Black Panther Party.
COINTELPRO
This artist, singer, and activist was born in 1898 Princeton, NJ and died in 1976 in Philadelphia, PA. He was famous for his deep baritone voice, his singing of slave and freedom songs, his international solidarity with China and the Soviet Union, and was repressed, condemned, and put on trial before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for his embrace of Communism.
Paul Robeson
Where was the Black Panther Party founded?
Oakland, California (1966)
A religious movement founded in the 1930's to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and economic condition of Black Americans.
This minister and civil rights leader used the nonviolent teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Jesus of Nazareth to inform his political tactics, inspiring and mobilizing millions of Black Americans and their allies in the struggle for peace and justice. He considered militarism, poverty, and racism the Three Evils of Society.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This is the name of the prison that held three political prisoners -- Albert Woodfox, Robert King, and Herman Wallace -- members of the Black Panther Party, who were organizing for prisoner's rights -- and falsely framed them for murder, and held them in solitary confinement for 40 years.
Angola Prison (Louisiana State Penitentiary)
This sociologist, writer, activist, and co-founder of the NAACP was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, MA, studied extensively in Philadelphia, PA, and died the day before the Great March on Washington in 1963 while he was living in Ghana. He wrote "Black Reconstruction," "Dark Princess," "The World and Africa," and many others.
W.E.B. Du Bois
What did the Black Panther Party's 10 Point Program demand? Name at least 3 of their 10 points.
Freedom, employment, housing, education, peace, fair trials, and an end to police brutality, the prison industrial complex, and mandatory military service.
A Black Liberation group founded in 1972 in Philadelphia, PA. The group lived communally in West Philadelphia, and their home was bombed by the City of Philadelphia and attacked by police, resulting in the destruction of over 60 homes and 11 deaths, including children. The last of their members who were political prisoners were recently freed, and members of this group are still politically active in Philadelphia and beyond today.
MOVE
He was a Muslim minister and black liberation leader who was assassinated for his influence and beliefs in 1965.
Malcolm X
The state and local laws which enforced racial segregation in the United States between 1877 and the 1964.
Jim Crow laws
This highly influential Jazz composer was born in 1926 in Hamlet, NC and died in 1967 in Huntington, NY. After his passing, his wife -- also a musician -- became a yogi and founded an ashram (a type of Hindu monastery).
John Coltrane
The Chairman of the Black Panther Party's Chicago Chapter who was assassinated in his home by the FBI.
Fred Hampton
The movement that fought to end the Transatlantic Slave Trade, abolish slavery, and set slaves free.
The Abolitionist Movement
She was a target of the FBI, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, and took refuge in Cuba after she was freed from prison by the Black Liberation Army.
Assata Shakur
Passed on September 18, 1850 by Congress, this act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. This rewarded and allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States.
The Fugitive Slave Act
This poet, writer, and activist was born in 1928 in St. Louis, MO and died in 2014 in Winston-Salem, NC.
"You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise."
Maya Angelou
Free Breakfast for Children Program
A worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diasporan ethnic groups of African descent.
Pan-Africanism
She is writer, activist, professor, and former member of the Black Panther Party born in 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her writings include "Women, Race, and Class," "Freedom Is A Constant Struggle," and more.
Angela Davis
Name at least one of the primary means the State uses today to suppress the freedom, rights, and lives of Black Americans today.
Police, the prison-industrial complex, job and housing discrimination.
This novelist, playwright, and activist was born in Harlem, NY in 1924 and died in 1987 in France. He wrote "The Fire Next Time," "Go Tell It On The Mountain," and others. The documentary "I Am Not Your Negro" is based on his writings.