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Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989) was an African American revolutionary and political activist who founded the Black Panther Party. He ran the party as its first leader and crafted its ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale in 1966.
Oct 23, 2024 · Huey P. Newton (born February 17, 1942, Monroe, Louisiana, U.S.—died August 22, 1989, Oakland, California) was an American political activist, cofounder (with Bobby Seale) of the Black Panther Party (originally called Black Panther Party for Self-Defense).
Aug 22, 2023 · Huey P. Newton, at 28 years old, was the leader of the Black Panther Party, one of the most influential social movements of the 1960s. When he’d been arrested in 1967, charged with killing a...
Mar 22, 2021 · In 1989, Newton was fatally shot in West Oakland by a member of the Black Guerilla Family and drug dealer named Tyrone Robinson. Relations between the Black Panther Party and the Black Guerilla Family had been strained for nearly twenty years prior to this incident.
Oct 28, 2024 · Black Panther Party, African American revolutionary party, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.
Oct 28, 2011 · Huey P Newton was co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense along with Bobby Seale. Newton dedicated his life to fighting for racial equality.
Feb 24, 2007 · Huey Newton was murdered in Oakland, California on August 22, 1989; he was 47 years old. He was survived by his wife Fredricka. Newton’s autobiography entitled Revolutionary Suicide was first published in 1973 and republished in 1995.
Huey Newton, Black Panther Minister of Defense. A poster of Huey Newton sitting in a rattan throne chair wearing a beret and a black leather jacket while holding a rifle in his right hand and a spear in his left hand.
Jan 28, 2019 · Huey Newton was an African American political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. When Newton was convicted for the fatal shooting of a police officer, his imprisonment became a common cause among activists in the United States.
The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation preserves and promotes the true legacy and ideals of the Black Panther Party. We commission public art, create educational tools and exhibitions, interpret historic sites, and maintain the largest archival collection on the Black Panther Party worldwide.
