The Black Panther Party--4 pages

THE BLACK PANTHERS The Black Panthers were a paramilitary organization fighting to improve conditions of the black community. They adopted the black panther symbol from The Lowndes County Freedom Organization, an independent political party established in 1965 by black residents in Alabama. As the antithesis of the nonviolence approach to the civil rights movement, advocated by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the original Black Panther Party for Self-Defense advocated weaponry use against police aggression. Armed with …

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