The Black Panther Party

The Panthers raised the bar of radicalism and resistive politics, while influencing society far beyond what many expected from its small cadre of members. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs. The party was one of the first organizations in U.S. history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation — a party whose agenda was the revolutionary establishment of real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines.

To read more about the Black Panther Party, please visit: http://www.blackpanther.org/

Surces: Ogbar, Jeffrey. Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 and http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/

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