The black Panthers was the most significant activist group during the 1960s who had a positive impact because they emphasized black pride, community control, and unification. Coming from different places, both Bobby Seale and Huey Newton were just two students at Merritt College who worked with eachother to develop the school’s black studies' curriculum and combine African-American History courses into their college curriculum, as they were also very involved in politics. After the assassination of Malcolm X, the mistreatment and extreme of police brutality against the African-Americans, both men were determined to do something for the black communities. On October 15, 1966 in Oakland California, was when the pair decided to form the Black …show more content…
The ten points included: 1.) We want freedom 2.) we want full employments for our people. 3.) We want an end to the robbery by the white man of the black community. 4.) We want housing; we want shelter, which is fit for human beings. 5.) We want an education which teaches us our true history and our role in the present day American society. 6.) We want all black men to be exempt from military service, stop the murder of black people. 7.) We want all black men immediately released from federal state, county, city jails, and penitentiaries. 8.) We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the constitution of the United States. 9.) We want land, bread, housing, education. 10.) we want clothing, justice and peace. They believed that in order to receive these demands, they would have to follow Martin Luther King Jr’s “Non-violence” campaign, in which they thought would take too long, or may not even work, but only way they could receive these demands quicker, was by violence as their public stance. In the event that the Black Panthers developed into a Marxist revolutionary group, many more people became involved in the party movement to end racial segregation, including women, exceeding up to 2,000 members operating in several major