HIUS 1501 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Huey P. Newton, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: History-United States History
• Course: HIUS 1501
• Professor: Lynn French

Document Summary

Onset of 7 years" black power demonstrations. International crises, political assassinations, racial insurrections, street demonstrations, antiwar protests, bitter presidential races. Student protests in france, italy, spain, germany. England, asia (talked to ho chi minh in vietnam), north africa (algerians -- had just booted french out of algeria), east and. West africa, ended up living in west africa. Met in afro-american association in community college. Then started looking at beatings/arrests by police. At the time in ca, could carry unconcealed weapons. Bpp would stop near police arrests, and would shout things about miranda rights (pre-miranda rights) Bpp would do lots of name-calling, pigs etc, Group showed up on statehouse steps with guns, protesting. Police stopped him one evening during his patrols , got into a shootout with police officers. Though, major victories won in the south but not so much in the. When he was assassinated, all bets off the table .