Modern Era · North America · Politics
1966
Black Panthers founded
October 15, 1966
In Oakland, California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, a group that patrolled police with legally carried guns and organized free breakfasts for Black children. The FBI under Hoover declared them a threat and went after them. Within a few years, most of the founders were dead, imprisoned, or in exile.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.