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Black Panther Party Test Flashcards

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What is historiography?

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the way in which history has been written

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Who was James Baldwin?

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Civil rights activist that heavily influenced the Black Panthers with his writing

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The majority of Black Panther Party members were…..

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Women & Young People

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Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party? When was it founded?

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Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; 1966 in Oakland, CA

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The famous phrase of the Black Panther Party is…?

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All Power to the People!

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What is socialism?

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the political and economic theory that means the production, distribution, and exchange of good should be regulated by the community as a whole (Equality)

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What did the Black Panther Party do once it was founded?

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Patrols of the Oakland Police Department - Armed with guns, law books, and pocket constitutions

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Black socialists believed that….

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Redistribution of wealth; capitalism and racism kept African Americans oppressed

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What are People’s/Survival Programs?

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Programs that the Black Panther Party started because they felt they were necessary for survival

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Free Breakfast for School Children Program (1969)

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Survival program to feed children who weren’t eating a filling and nutritious breakfast each morning.

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Sickle Cell Anemia Research Program (1971)

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Survival program to test and create a cure for sickle-cell anemia (deadly disease that mainly affects African Americans)

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Free Ambulance Service (1972)

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Survival program to assist African Americans who were either elderly or injured with a free ride to/from the hospital.

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First Point of the Ten Point Program -

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We want Freedom. We believe that that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.

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Second Point of the Ten Point Program -

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We want full employment for our people

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Third Point of the Ten Point Program -

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Demanding the retribution they were promised for the millions of slave deaths in the form of currency

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Fourth Point of the Ten Point Program -

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We want decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings

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Fifth Point of the Ten Point Program -

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We want education for our people, education that teaches us our true history and role in the present-day society.

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Sixth Point of the Ten Point Program -

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We want all black men to be exempt from military service

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Seventh Point of the Ten Point Program -

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We want an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of Black people

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Eighth Point of the Ten Point Program -

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We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails

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Ninth Point of the Ten Point Program -

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We want all black people to be tried by a jury from their community; not by white people

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Tenth Point of the Ten Point Program - We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, Justice and peace

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We want basic human rights and privileges given to white people.

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What is COINTELPRO

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FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program

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The director of the FBI that targeted the Black Panther Party and its affiliates and led COINTELPRO was

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J. Edgar Hoover

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Ghetto Informant Program

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4,000 Black people nationwide went undercover and gave reports back to the FBI

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September 19, 1967

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COINTELPRO is given the funds to expand; Ramsey Clark orders another investigation to the riots

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Winter of 1968

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Hoover gave instructions to the FBI to prevent the rise of a “Black Messiah”

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How many operations were designed to disrupt Black nationalist and militant orgs

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360 operations

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When was MLK assassinated? Why was we killed?

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April 4th, 1968; FBI had him killed, on the top of their list

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Stokely Carmichael -

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Fights for Black people to vote - makes first black political party

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Fred Hampton

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Black Panther Party Chairman (Drugged by his bodyguard and assassinated by the FBI)

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December 4, 1969

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Akua Njeri witnessed her fiance (Fred Hampton) be shot dead by Chicago officers

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The Rainbow Coalition that Fred Hampton created was formed by…

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The Black Panther Party, Puerto Rican Young Lords, Young Patriots

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What role did African-Americans play during the Civil War?

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100,000 African Americans fought for the Union to ensure their freedom

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The Great Migration

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African Americans by the millions fled the South for a better life; far from lynching & sharecropping

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The Red Summer

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Angry White mobs brought on more than 40 racially motivated attacks across the US

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Lynchings in the US

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A form of public entertainment

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Marcus Garvey

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Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and challenged the racial status quo.

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What was Brown V. Board of Education, and what were its impacts?

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A Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional; helped launch the Civil Rights Movement

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What happened to Emmett Till

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Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy was brutally murdered and thrown into the Tallahatchie River.

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September 15, 1963

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KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist church, killed one 11-year-old and three 14-year-olds. All African-American

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Robert F. WIlliams

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Founder of the Black Armed Guard (NC). Relocated to Cuba and to broadcast “Radio Free Dixie” and published “Negroes With Guns”

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SNCC

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More conservative civil rights organization. Many of them became Black Panthers once the group disbanded.

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Once Geronimo Pratt met John Huggins and Bunchy Carter, he soon began to

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Train members of the Black Panthers

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How many years did Geronimo Pratt spend in jail? How many of them were in solitary confinement?

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27 years; 8 years solitary

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Angela Davis worked as a _______ before Ronald Reagan had her fired.

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Assistant Professor at UCLA

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