By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.
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The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
The Black Panthers was what we would call today a criminal gang that was formed by Huey Newton. Now, interestingly enough, I knew Huey Newton before he formed the Black Panthers. He was a student of mine when I was a teacher, instructor at Oakland City College back in the very early 1960s.
Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.
The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.
The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
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