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People and Influences
The Point Program
Reasons and Purposes
History of the BPP
Misc.
200

This is the man who's actions the Black Panthers based their whole organization around.

Who is Malcolm X

200
The Black Panther founders formed the Black Panthers to gain this for all black African-Americans.
What is equality
200
Newton and Seale lived by Malcom X's quote of accomplishing this ,"by any means necessary"
What is freedom
200

The _____ were a Black Nationalist group of civil rights activists founded in 1966.

What is The Black Panther Party

200
This is the official name of the Black Panther Party that is still around today.
What is The New Black Panther Party
400

In October 1966, Huey P. Newton and this man formed the Black Panthers in Oakland, California.

Who is Bobby Seale

400
This is the number of points in the BPP's point program
What is ten
400

This was the name of the BPP's program that set up kitchens across the U.S.A. to feed kids before they went to school. They fed over 10,000 kids every day.

What is the Free Breakfast for School Children Program

400
This news paper, run by the BPP's members, released it's first issue on April 25th, 1967.
What is The Black Panther
400
This is the year that Huey P. Newton was shot dead in Oakland over a drug dispute.
What is 1989
500

This civil rights activist from the late '50's and the '60's was not taking enough action to gain equality, according to the BPP members.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.

500

These two words were used repeatedly in the ten point program

What is "we want"

500

The organization was made for this purpose

What is self-defense against police brutality

500
This is the city where the Black Panthers originated.
What is Oakland, California
500

This government agency saw the Black Panther Party as terrorist and enemy to the U.S

What is the FBI

600

This was the official name of the Black Panthers when originally formed in 1956

What is Black Panther Party for self defense

600
This is the month and year that the Black Panther founders wrote the ten point program
What is October, 1966
600

This percent of poor people in metropolitan areas in the early 1960's were black

What is 71%

600

The BPP hosted these type of programs

What is the Free breakfast program for children program and education programs

600

This was the estimated number of people associated with The black Panther Party

What is around 2000?

700
In 1969, this former head of the FBI stated that the Black Panther were the, "greatest threat to the internal security of the country."
What is J. Edgar Hoover
700

In 1968, this book was sold to college students in order to buy shotguns for the Black Panther Party.

What is Mao's Red Book

700
In 1966, this percent of all black people in the U.S were living under the poverty line
What is 32%