Creation of the Black Panthers

The Black Panthers were a political group created in Oakland, California in october of 1966 by Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale. This group was formed with the propose of defending all people that were oppressed from any minority group, but specially the black people, that explain it name. They were an important part of the groups that follow the civil rights, but also equality in education, housing and employment. Their thougths were similar to the Martin Luther King ones, but with the diference that they don't believe in the non-violent campaign. They were in disposition of doing what ever they can to get what they want.

They use violence only as a way of deffending their self. When they attacked police they only wanted to fight against the abuse and injustice from the government and other racist people. As the members of the group explain: "It is not part of the nature of the Panther attack first, but when she is attacked and besieged, she reacts violently and ends with her attacker." this show us that they didn´t pretend to attacked first, only defend their self.
The two creators, Newton and Seale, got their ideas and ideals from Malcom X, they want to follow his steps and they learned a lot from him.

Their time of "glory" was between 1967 and 1968, in this time the organization reach the 5.000 members. In may of 1967 they do the fist public act that consisted in invade the Legislative Chamber of the State of California, because they were against a new law that try to control the use un weapons, after this they began to be a reinforced group. This was the event that let all people know about this organization, both: common people and the government.