Black Panther Party Test Flashcards
What is historiography?
the way in which history has been written
Who was James Baldwin?
Civil rights activist that heavily influenced the Black Panthers with his writing
The majority of Black Panther Party members were…..
Women & Young People
Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party? When was it founded?
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; 1966 in Oakland, CA
The famous phrase of the Black Panther Party is…?
All Power to the People!
What is socialism?
the political and economic theory that means the production, distribution, and exchange of good should be regulated by the community as a whole (Equality)
What did the Black Panther Party do once it was founded?
Patrols of the Oakland Police Department - Armed with guns, law books, and pocket constitutions
Black socialists believed that….
Redistribution of wealth; capitalism and racism kept African Americans oppressed
What are People’s/Survival Programs?
Programs that the Black Panther Party started because they felt they were necessary for survival
Free Breakfast for School Children Program (1969)
Survival program to feed children who weren’t eating a filling and nutritious breakfast each morning.
Sickle Cell Anemia Research Program (1971)
Survival program to test and create a cure for sickle-cell anemia (deadly disease that mainly affects African Americans)
Free Ambulance Service (1972)
Survival program to assist African Americans who were either elderly or injured with a free ride to/from the hospital.
First Point of the Ten Point Program -
We want Freedom. We believe that that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.
Second Point of the Ten Point Program -
We want full employment for our people
Third Point of the Ten Point Program -
Demanding the retribution they were promised for the millions of slave deaths in the form of currency
Fourth Point of the Ten Point Program -
We want decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings
Fifth Point of the Ten Point Program -
We want education for our people, education that teaches us our true history and role in the present-day society.
Sixth Point of the Ten Point Program -
We want all black men to be exempt from military service
Seventh Point of the Ten Point Program -
We want an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of Black people
Eighth Point of the Ten Point Program -
We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails
Ninth Point of the Ten Point Program -
We want all black people to be tried by a jury from their community; not by white people
Tenth Point of the Ten Point Program - We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, Justice and peace
We want basic human rights and privileges given to white people.
What is COINTELPRO
FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program
The director of the FBI that targeted the Black Panther Party and its affiliates and led COINTELPRO was
J. Edgar Hoover
Ghetto Informant Program
4,000 Black people nationwide went undercover and gave reports back to the FBI
September 19, 1967
COINTELPRO is given the funds to expand; Ramsey Clark orders another investigation to the riots
Winter of 1968
Hoover gave instructions to the FBI to prevent the rise of a “Black Messiah”
How many operations were designed to disrupt Black nationalist and militant orgs
360 operations
When was MLK assassinated? Why was we killed?
April 4th, 1968; FBI had him killed, on the top of their list
Stokely Carmichael -
Fights for Black people to vote - makes first black political party
Fred Hampton
Black Panther Party Chairman (Drugged by his bodyguard and assassinated by the FBI)
December 4, 1969
Akua Njeri witnessed her fiance (Fred Hampton) be shot dead by Chicago officers
The Rainbow Coalition that Fred Hampton created was formed by…
The Black Panther Party, Puerto Rican Young Lords, Young Patriots
What role did African-Americans play during the Civil War?
100,000 African Americans fought for the Union to ensure their freedom
The Great Migration
African Americans by the millions fled the South for a better life; far from lynching & sharecropping
The Red Summer
Angry White mobs brought on more than 40 racially motivated attacks across the US
Lynchings in the US
A form of public entertainment
Marcus Garvey
Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and challenged the racial status quo.
What was Brown V. Board of Education, and what were its impacts?
A Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court ruled racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional; helped launch the Civil Rights Movement
What happened to Emmett Till
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy was brutally murdered and thrown into the Tallahatchie River.
September 15, 1963
KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist church, killed one 11-year-old and three 14-year-olds. All African-American
Robert F. WIlliams
Founder of the Black Armed Guard (NC). Relocated to Cuba and to broadcast “Radio Free Dixie” and published “Negroes With Guns”
SNCC
More conservative civil rights organization. Many of them became Black Panthers once the group disbanded.
Once Geronimo Pratt met John Huggins and Bunchy Carter, he soon began to
Train members of the Black Panthers
How many years did Geronimo Pratt spend in jail? How many of them were in solitary confinement?
27 years; 8 years solitary
Angela Davis worked as a _______ before Ronald Reagan had her fired.
Assistant Professor at UCLA
