oct 15, 1966 - Black Panther Party founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale

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Party was characterized by a ten point platform:
1) Power to determine the destiny of our black community.
2) Full employment.
3) An end to the robbery of the Black community by the government.
4) Decent housing.
5) Real Education.
6) For all black men to be exempt from military service.
7) An immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people.
8) Freedom for all Black prisoners.
9) For all black people on trial to be tried by a jury of their peers.
10) Peace, and Black representation in the United Nations.

Party Dissolved in 1982.

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