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Black Panthers Origins and History
Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale met in 1961 while students at Merritt College in Oakland, California.
They both protested the college’s “Pioneer Day” celebration, which honored the pioneers who came to California in the 1800s, but omitted the role of African Americans in settling the American West.
Seale and Newton formed the Negro History Fact Group, which called on the school to offer classes in Black history.
They founded the Black Panthers in the wake of the assassination of Black nationalist Malcolm X and after police in San Francisco shot and killed an unarmed Black teen named Matthew Johnson.
Originally dubbed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the organization was founded in October 1966.
The Black Panthers’ early activities primarily involved monitoring police activities in Black communities in Oakland and other cities.
As they instituted a number of social programs and engaged in political activities,
