Black Panthers
Ezekiel King
Civil Rights
-The movement was supposed to achieve civil rights equal to those of whites, including equal opportunity
- This movement sought to restore to African Americans the rights of citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
- It changed relations between the federal government and the states
- The federal government was forced many times to enforce its laws and protect the rights of African American citizens.
- The civil rights movement has been called the Second Reconstruction, in reference to the Reconstruction imposed upon the South following the Civil War.
Black Panthers
Black Panthers
The ten points of the party platform were:
1) "Freedom; the power to determine the destiny of the Black and oppressed communities.
2) Full Employment; give every person employment or guaranteed income.
3) End to robbery of Black communities; the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules as promised to ex-slaves during the reconstruction period following the emancipation of slavery.
4) Decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings; the land should be made into cooperatives so that the people can build.
5) Education for the people; that teaches the true history of Blacks and their role in present day society.
6) Free health care; health facilities which will develop preventive medical programs.
7) End to police brutality and murder of Black people and other people of color and oppressed people.
8) End to all wars of aggression; the various conflicts which exist stem directly from the United States ruling circle.
9) Freedom for all political prisoners; trials by juries that represent our peers.
10) Land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and community control of modern industry."