Huey Newton’s Black Panther Party and the Black Lives Matter movement share similar goals, but are different in ways they set out to achieve those goals. The Black Panthers party's presence got so threatened that the FBI labeled the group ‘Public Enemy Number One,’ while in today’s Black Lives Matter movement are labeled as a terrorist group although there are little to no similarities or validity to the claim. While sharing similarities between the two groups, both were different in their movement’s goals, beliefs, and actions that they took.
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale created the Black Panthers party in Oakland while Newton was just 24 years (Haiphong). The Black Panthers major goals were to demand the racial equality for the civil rights groups in their education, employment, an end to police brutality,and improved housing (Weise). He also pushed the agenda to defend black Americans from police brutality and murder, while also teaching black Americans the rights to armed self defense (Haiphong).
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When an interaction with a police officer would occur in the black community, surrounding men would openly carry loaded guns to ensure that no wrongdoing would happen during the altercation which some stated as “policing the police (Nelson).” The Black Panthers would do their own investigations on cases, hold street-corner rallies, confront law enforcements, and teach that being armed would create an intimidating factor by to put a stop to police brutality (Nelson). The most memorable actions they took were making their own investigations in cases within the black community, take part in street corner rallies, and pushed the idea that the only way to end police brutality were to carry concealed weapons, but do not shoot