Militant Movements (Black Panthers, Brown Berets and Young Lords Party’s

1. Militant Movements (Black Panthers, Brown Berets and Young Lords Party’s Mr. Coronado Curie Metro

2. Black Panther Party • Founded October 1966 Oakland, Calif • Huey Newton and Bobby Seale • Practiced militant self-defense of communities vs. U.S. gov’t • 1st organization in U.S. history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation!

3. Fred Hampton (Leader BPP in Chicago) • Lead 5 different programs on West Side • BPP created medical center • Door to door health service which test for sickle cell anemia • BPP reached out to local gangs, lure away from crime and into a class war

4. BPP Platform & Program • We want freedom. Power to determine destiny of our Black Comm • We want full employment of our pep • We want to end robbery by the Capitalist of our Black Comm • We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings • We want education

5. Platform ContBPP • We want all black men exempt from military service • “End to Police Brutality and murder • Freedom for all Black men held federal, state, county and city prisons • “all Black pep when brought to a trial to be tried by a jury of their Black comm • “land bread housing, edu, justice

6. Panther Community Programs • Breakfast programs for children • Consumer Edu classes • Police Patrols • Health Clinics • Free Clothing and Dental Programs • Free Dental Programs • Drug/alcohol abuse programs

7. BPP Programs

8. BPP Building Coalitions • "We will continue to have working alliances with other groups like Los Siete de la Raza, a group supporting the seven Latino brothers who are accused of killing a cop in San Francisco. Alliances with groups like Los Siete have worked out a lot better than coalitions with white liberals because the brown American people are suffering from the same things black American people are. The Young Lords, a Puerto Rican gang that turned political, works in alliance with the Black Panther Party in Chicago and New York. (BBP Quote)

9. BPP and Brown Berets Literature

10. Brown Berets • In 1967 young Chicanos & Chicanas formed Brown Berets in East L.A. • Similar to BPP fought vs Police Brutality, inadequate edu, lack of political representation & Vietnam Draft.

11. Co-Founder BB and Student Walkouts

12. Young Lords Party • In 1960s Young Lords emerged as a political party in Chicago • While in prison Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez met Fred Hampton & other BPP members • Discussed oppression of their people and “Cha Cha” brought idea of political empowerment to the “Young Lord” which was a street gang & mobilized them (Politically

13. Young Lords Issues • Jimenez part of big wave of Puerto Rican migrants in early 50s • Many Puerto Rican moved to Chicago & settled in Lincoln Park hood. (DePaul Un) • YL vs Urban Renewal Plan (Drove Puerto Ricans & poor people from homes because lack of affordable housing)

14. Stokley Carmichael • Former chairmen of Student Non-violent Coordinating Comm (SNCC) • Coined the term “Black Power” • For Black Liberation Movement. Felt whites can’t relate to AA experience and had an intmidating effect on AA

15. BPP Propoganda & Coalitions

16. FBI (Cointelpro) • Under J. Edgar Hoover begin the counterintelligence program to break up BPP, Brown Berets. • Informants infiltrated the organizations • Operation was to stop the spreading of unity within organizations and throughout the U.S. • Other gps targeted (SCLC, Chavez, American Indian Movement)

17. Dec 4, 1969 Hampton Assassignation • FBI informant located Hampton whereabouts. CPD raid West Side Apt • Murdering Hampton (2 in head, 1 arm and shoulder) • Hampton 21 yrs • According to Finding in grand jury, 90 bullets fired inside apt. (1-2 bullets came from Mark Clark other BPP killed in raid)