DuBois, and, especially, civil rights activist Malcolm X, Newton and Seale organized the Black Panther Party in October of 1966, with Seale as chairman and Newton as minister of defense. Together, following the doctrines of former Chinese ruler Mao Tsetung, black scholar W. These concerns were shared by fellow Merritt student Bobby Seale. But his quick anger and disregard for authority belied his growing racial and social awareness, his concern about the treatment of his community, and what he felt was the needless impoverishment of the ghetto. While attending Merritt, Newton brandished a knife during a political argument at a party and consequently served a six-month prison term. Higher education, however, did not quell his street-bred anger. Newton earned an associate ’s degree in social science from Merritt College in Oakland, and he also took courses at the University of San Francisco Law School. Into a determination to learn to read and to eventually attend college.
Sentenced to two to 15 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter of an Oakland, CA, police officer, 1967 released on appeal, 1970 worked in a cement factory while in exile in Cuba, 1974-77 sentenced to nine months in prison for possession of a handgun, 1987 sentenced to six months in prison for misappropriation of public funds, 1989. Education : Merritt College, associate ’s degree, 1965 attended University of San Francisco Law School University of California at Santa Cruz, Ph.D., 1980.Ĭofounder (with Bobby Seale), minister of defense, and chief theoretician of the Black Panther Party, 1966-89 writer. But his admiration for his older brother, who earned a master ’s degree in social work, coupled with his desire to prove his school counselors wrong in their assessment of his abilities, translated At a Glance …īorn Huey Percy Newton, February 17, 1942, in Monroe (some sources say New Orleans), LA died of gunshot wounds to the head, August 22,1989, in Oakland, CA son of Walter (a sharecropper and Baptist minister) and Armelia Newton married Fredrika Slaughter children: Ronnie, Jessica, and Kieron. ” His inattentiveness in school resulted in his being functionally illiterate even after graduation from high school. Hevesi related that Newton “spent his childhood in a state of war with his teachers, being suspended from school about 30 times, breaking open parking meters, and being arrested at 14 years old for gun possession. Growing up poor in a large family in Oakland, Newton began exhibiting antisocial behavior early in life. He was also a man stained by violence, a onetime fugitive and ex-convict who, in the last decade of his life, abused alcohol and drugs and finally died, as a Time reporter put it, “lying in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in a crack-infested Oakland neighborhood with three bullets in his head. Congress by the Peace and Freedom Party in 1968. He was a man who overcame illiteracy and attended college, debated theories of revolution with social psychologist Erik Erikson at Yale University, gave a silent community a sociopolitical voice, and was nominated as a candidate for the U.S. Huey Newton, cofounder of the Black Panther Party and its chief theoretician, embodied the dual perceptions of the group. Dressed in black berets and black leather jackets, their fists raised in angry defiance, its members “were more than enough to unnerve an establishment still shaky from Vietnam war protests, civil rights marches, and inflamed ghettos, ” Dennis Hevesi wrote in the New York Times. To many of its nonmembers, the Black Panther Party was perceived as a violent, revolutionary gang bent on achieving anarchy through destruction.
Representative Ronald Dellums told Bill Turque in Newsweek. To those it served, the Black Panther Party was a grass roots organization that aided the indigent in the black community, sought to protect the young and old from what its members saw as a tyrannical and insensitive government, and “represented a significant stage in the development of the movement for black political involvement, ” U.S. During the 1960s civil rights movement in the United States, no group united the desires of a minority community while alienating those outside of it more than the Black Panther Party.
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