AFROAM 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cointelpro, Huey P. Newton, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Afro-American Studies
• Course: AFROAM 236
• Professor: Traci Parker

Document Summary

Lower class white and blacks are left in urban centers while the middle class begins suburbanization. Huey newton & bobby seale created the black panther party for self-defense. Grounded in marxist ideology & protecting black lives at any cost. 1966-1967 looking for a way to grow so they recruit eldridge cleaver. Women are called pantherettes: 1970 women president (more leadership roles, backbone of the movements. Panther patrols- panthers watch the police (legal but annoyed the police) Organized free health clinics (sickle cell anemia test) Cointelpro- sending in black spies to disrupt the movement. 1967 october huey arrested for 3 years: while huey is in jail they call stockley (black power) (still president of sncc) and offer him a position in panthers. He accepts w/o telling sncc and got kicked out of sncc: stokley starts purging ppl from the group seale is one of them. Panthers basically destroy themselves by constant implying: women take over 1970, basically defunct by 1974.