Black Panthers Civil Rights Movement

In this essay I will be discussing how the Black Panthers were trying to help the African American community. During the Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr had organised many nonviolent protest to help the African American community gain equal rights and to end segregation in the South. These nonviolent protests were mainly set in the South and mainly worked for the Southern community. It wasn’t effective in the North side which had the Ghettos which consisted of the African American community. During this time the Black people were treated in a horrible manner by the Police there were lots of reports of the police attacking the African American people who were not armed or did nothing wrong.

As we know the Black Panthers adapted their

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale wanted people to join the Black Panthers not only for them to be able to carry firearms in the streets but also to help the community and help educate and bring about the 4 desires of the Black Panthers of quality in education, housing, employment and Civil Rights (A)(H). The Black Panthers had a 10 point Plan to achieve these desires and it included ending all police brutality and ending all wars of aggression. They dint use violence because they wanted too, they used it to end conflicts and to protect themselves. They used violent and promoted the use of violent to help communities such as the Watts community which has been attacked by the police and had to result to violence as nonviolence didn’t stop the brutality(A)(D). The Police treated the member of the Black Panther in a horrible manner. They would raid them and humiliate them because they were carrying guns around. The Black panthers were treated worse them most people as the found ways around the constitution as they were allowed to be carrying guns around just like the

The police were not too fond of the Black Panthers policing them and trying to intimidate them. They found that the Black Panthers violent ways were not justified. They found that the Black Panthers were the cause of gang violence that occurred in the ghettos and that the Black Panthers should be stopped. The FBI thought that the Black Panthers were trying to overthrow the US government and were being tracked. The FBI found that the Black Panthers violent tactics were not to help the Black community. They thought that the Black Panthers use of violence was not justified for good reasons but seen as guerrilla warfare tactics to end the US government.