![]() ![]() How did you come up with the name Black Panther?Īctually we had written the Ten-Point Platform and Program of the organization but yet didn't have a name. Okay, how did you come up with the symbol and the name Black Panther. I won Chairman and we created the Black Panther Party. And we summarized that Ten-Point Platform Program, flipped a coin to see who would be Chairman. I mean this was the kind of summarization we gave to our meeting. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to separate themselves from the political bondage-that was the emphasis, the political bondage-which has connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature, nature's God entitled them. And, ah, in the tail end we stuck in two famous paragraphs. Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965 - 1985 Episode 203-28. We wanted land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. The right to have juries of our peers in the courts, what have you. Alluding to the needs, we organized political electoral power, full employment, decent housing, decent education to tell us about our true selves, not to have to fight in Vietnam, immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people was point number 7. We want power to determine our own destiny in our own Black community. And we sit down and then began to write out this ten-point platform and program in the North Oakland Neighborhood Service Center in North Oakland, California, in the community where Huey and I lived. We finally concluded through those months that we had to start a new organization. So there we are trying to figure out what to do. So that phenomenon was that the city council was just a racist structure which could care less about the 48 percent Black and Chicano people who lived in the city of Oakland. We were questioning, Huey and I, about the need for a functional definition of power and we came up with this, "That power is the ability to define phenomenon then in turn make it act in a desired manner." Well the phenomenon of racism structured in the city council at that time, ah, Huey and I working with the North Oakland Neighborhood Service Center and the advisory board we got 5,000 signatures for them to go to the city council, to get the city council to try to set up a police review board to deal with complaints of police brutality. Stokely Carmichael was on the scene with Black Power. And Huey and I began to try to figure out how could we organize 5,000 youthful Black folks into some kind of political-electoral power movement. ![]() Even a year earlier, in 1965 in Watts you know 65 people were killed, 200 wounded, 5,000 arrested. Newton and I were working with the North Oakland Neighborhood Service Center under the city government and Stokely Carmichael-īlack Panther Party, 1966, when Huey and I founded that organization, that particular year numerous acts of police brutality had sparked a lot of spontaneous riots, something that Huey and I were against, these spontaneous riots. problem was actually police brutality that had been sparking numerous riots in 1966, even prior to that in 1965, the Watts Riot had vicious acts of police brutality. ![]() Only text appearing in bold italics was used in the final version of These transcripts contain material that did not appear in the final program. Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection. Interview with, conducted by Blackside, Inc. View ItemInterviewer: NAME_OF_INTERVIEWER_X_process ![]()
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