The Civil Rights movement ended segregation and guaranteed equal rights among all races. This paper focuses on the role played by the Black Panthers in the Civil Rights movement and their individual actions that affected the goals of the movement greatly. The Black Panther party began in 1966, California. They created ten steps to help Black communities economically. There were programs that were started by the Black Panthers that have affected the Civil Rights movement. Their legacy lives on untill today and has started many Black empowering groups since then. The Black Panthers played a short but very effective part in the Civil Rights movement.
In 1966, Huey Percy Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers were an African American party that was willing to violently defend and speak up for
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The Black Panther’s wanted four things for the colored community: “equality in education, housing, employment, and civil rights.” They created ten steps for the Black Panther Party to achieve these aspirations. These ten steps were supposed to help the Black communities economically. Some of the steps are freedom, full employment, decent housing, free healthcare, and ending robbery in black communities. The Black Panthers affected the civil rights movement by starting many programs for the colored community giving them a sense of equality. There were programs like free breakfast for school children and more than ten free healthcare clinics in colored communities. Before the Black Panthers, colored people were afraid to stand up to white people due to its results, but the Black Panthers goal was to intimidate police officers to end police brutality. They would hold a gun against a police officer when a colored person was held in the same position. An act of bravery from colored people would eventually alarm the