In the memoir, We Took the Streets by Miguel “Mickey” Melendez recounts the histories of the highly controversial activist group, the Young Lords and their battle for social equality for Puerto Ricans and Latinos in New York City. As a founding member of the group, Melendez gives an unprecedented historical perspective into the efforts of a marginalized community during the late 1960’s, anxious for equal economic, social and political status. The contributions of The Young Lords are vital to history because they demonstrate how a group of individuals bonded by a common objective can produce change through conflict and resistance. Although the memoir successfully highlights the essential inequities that provoked the group to take back the streets
On May 2, 1967, Huey P. Newton, the minister of defense of the Black Panthers, said that “the time has come for black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late” (Document F). The group had changed to a violent point of view after they saw nothing was happening when they were
In contrary to peaceful protest and marches led by Martin Luther King there were other leaders who had more radical approaches to protest. Amongst these radical leaders are Malcolm X, Robert Williams, and the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers, a group created by in 1966, by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale protected black communities patrolling areas with loaded firearms, monitoring police activities involving blacks. Since they were known for carrying loaded firearms FBI Director J Edgar Hoover considered the Black Panthers “the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States” (To Determine the Destiny of Our Black Community). The Black Panthers created the Ten-Point Program.
Some in the government felt threatened by the BPP. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was especially concerned about groups like the Panthers because of their aggressiveness and potential for violence. He introduced the then-secret COINTELPRO to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist, hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership, spokesmen, membership, and supporters, and to counter their propensity for violence or civil disorder.” COINTELPRO activities included wiretaps, raids, anonymous letters, media infiltration, even murder. The main target was the BPP.
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).
If death was quickly approaching you, would you not do everything you could to keep it from taking you over? This is exactly what Hansel of Hansel and Gretel did. Everyone agrees that Hansel did not want to be cooked and eaten, but some believe that he should have stuck his bone “finger” out to the witch, while some think that he should not have. I believe that Hansel should have stuck the bone “finger” out to the witch for three reasons: he had devised a smart plan, he wanted to deceive the witch, and he wanted to stay alive.
They had notions such as calling the state an occupying force, segregating jurys, releasing all black prisoners and a racial exemption from military service. The Black Panthers believed that all black people should be released from prison because black people did not face equal trials. Black Panthers organized as militants purposely evoking revolutionary movements from africa by dressing in black leather while carrying shotguns. They chose these uniforms because they reflected African Americans desire for equality to be taken seriously. The black panthers carry guns in public spaces to build intimidation and protect black people in the communities.
In watching the documentary of the Black Panther Party (movement) and how they were form to better the communities around them. The Government officials, FBI in particular infuriated to destroy them in light to keep power among the weaker individuals of society. The individuals happen to be of color (Blacks, Latinos, and Asians). I did however admire how the documentary portrayed black culture at that time. Despite the things that were occurring between law enforcement and the Black Panther party, blackness was promoted and people were proud to be black.
Assurance in equal justice remains as an overwhelming political principle of American culture. Yet withstanding unbelief exists among numerous racial and ethnic minorities. Their doubt comes as no surprise, given a past filled with differential treatment in the arrangement of criminal equity, an issue particularly clear in police misconduct. Researchers have investigated police responses to racial and ethnic minorities for quite some time, offering sufficient confirmation of minority burden on account of police. These examinations raise doubt about different police techniques of coercive control, maybe none more so than police brutality.
Almost every year hundreds to thousands of African Americans are killed due to police brutality. Over like a hundred of African Americans were killed this year because of police brutality. Everyone who has been a part of police brutality, their families have to go on with life knowing someone really special to them is not in their life anymore. Many families are devastated this year because they have lost a family member or a spouse due to this situation. Many African Americans think that police brutality is not right.
The Panthers were fighting for equal housing, jobs, employment, education, and an end of police brutality across the nation on blacks and their support of civil rights movement and equality for all blacks. Newton and Seale devised a 10 point plan to empower blacks focusing on their rights as citizens with some of their views being unrealistic ie: having blacks released from prison and protesting the Vietnam War and the killing of
In the 1870s, southern Democrats began to muster more political power as former Confederates began to vote again. It was a movement that gathered energy up until the Compromise of 1877, in the process known as the Redemption. White Democratic Southerners saw themselves as redeeming the South by regaining power. They appealed to scalawags (white Southerners who supported the Republican Party after the civil war and during the time of reconstruction). More importantly, in a second wave of violence following the suppression of the Ku Klux Klan, violence began to increase in the Deep South.
This report is showing light to the communities’ response to police brutality particularly in the black communities and also their encounters with police officers. Police brutality is physical violence and great cruelty demonstrated by a police officer. Police brutality and misconduct have existed for many decades and it even has been broadcasted in news stories over America, but nothing has changed. It has happened predominantly to African Americans in lower-income states. Police officers are given slaps on the wrist for taking a life or injuring an innocent person.
The Black Panthers were a Black Power group that wanted equality for everyone. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense helped shape the Civil Rights movement immensely. Who they were, what their core beliefs were, and how they shaped the Civil Rights movement, and America today will be covered. The Black Panthers were originally started by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.
Malcolm X once said “Early in life [he] had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.” The Black Panther Party lived by this quote. The party rose from the foundations of Malcolm X. The party was much different from other civil rights movements. They went by direct confrontation.
